There’s been quite a few times where projects have been scrapped, or switched to a completely different team.
A project which is making a library (that I reckon will be used by every team) quietly got abandoned, then reassigned to a different team. The reassignment wasn’t communicated either. I found out just by browsing the repositories, and saw one with similar functionality.
My team felt the need to use such a feature and so we posted in Slack asking if anyone had plans/advice. Later that day, a big announcement was sent out, stating that people will need this, and teams should contact them for further info.
We contacted them for further info, then they said they don’t have an API because they didn’t consider people would want to use it just yet.
Are they having a laugh?
Why does it take people to ask about a project to then publicise the existence of it. Then it turns out it wasn’t even ready for other teams to even consider using.
The general advice to teams was to proceed “API first”, so that way dependent teams aren’t blocked. Then this team, whose entire existence is to work with pretty much every team – comes out with “we didn’t consider people would want to use it just yet”. Why were they working in secret?
Anyway, that’s even more work to block on our backlog then.
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