Dealing with the what seems obvious to you, yet not to others.

Have you ever had to deal with something that felt unimaginable, something that seems so basic that you are quite baffled why you are the only one saying that it’s not acceptable? You have to call it out and so to speak, do the right thing.

Let’s take a random example of how the team talks about doing ALL the testing on production on a high risk project.

You are taken a little by surprise. All the testing on production? So we’re going to release potential bugs to production, find them, then backtrack and fix them?

From all your experience, it simply does not make any sense at all.

It’s not acceptable.

So what do you do? You’re honest about it and say it’s not acceptable and we need to do testing in earlier environments.

I do have to remind myself that I only know this is not acceptable through experience. There would have been a time where I did not know it was not acceptable, so that’s an important reminder to remove any biases I have from the situation. To support, guide and share my personal experiences of dealing with what may seem obvious to me, yet not to others.