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dlppgh t1_jddcr6e wrote

Reply to comment by ktxhopem3276 in Let's pour one out for the developers of Pittsburgh by PublicCommenter

...you're kinda thin-skinned, aren't you? Not difficult to see why you'd have some trouble guiding a software project to completion.

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ktxhopem3276 t1_jddhktf wrote

Bill asked us to do a favor to give back to the city while we had plenty of paying customers we could have been working on instead. Priya runs software for many major league sports teams and does well at it.

>Just trying to help you understand it

> i hope you understand that point better

Your just assuming you know best and have to explain it to me like I’m a child … buzz off

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dlppgh t1_jddr91u wrote

Here's the problem. At that point, Bill Peduto was a City Councilman. He came at the CIS department not from a position of authority - in fact he did his best NOT to work with the administration chain of command. A "favor" to Bill - and him berating our Director - was outside of our workflow.

To emphasize - a "favor" to Bill Peduto involving a department and a team of employees that don't report to him isn't a valid workflow. We ALSO had important projects that our actual bosses tasked us with.

A software project done as a "favor" - that's typical of Peduto's leadership shortcomings. He was lucky that our Director even gave him the time of day, but he did...and that sort of thing didn't go over well in his chain of command.

I wonder how far "favor" software projects flung over by councilpeople got when Bill became mayor. Probably not far. Sadly, his leadership shortcomings only became more pronounced.

If Priya had paying customers that got back-burnered for this "favor"...yeesh, what a debacle. What an operational miasma. Those customers must have wondered what they were paying for. Maybe after paying the company, they also needed to ask Peduto for a favor, eh?

Silly nonsense.

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