A couple of months ago, I did tell my manager that we don’t have enough developers in the team. I end up with a bit of backlog of things to do, but I also need to dedicate time to train up my Apprentice. Quite often, we end up with conversations like this:

Manager: “Hey, what are you working on?”

Me: “Such a fix, after that, I need to return to the last bit of work I parked.”

Manager: “I have another task for you.”

What made me laugh is that the last time this conversation occurred: halfway through the day, he then tags me in a conversation about a bug and he says “this is tomorrow’s work for you”. So he gave me 2 more tasks to do that week.

I think this proves we don’t have enough developers. Colin’s been “preparing” for a project for a few weeks, Beavis has been making more excuses why he can’t work, Rob has been confused about his bug fix for weeks.

If we worked at pace (reference to a previous blog), then developers should be free to pick up this work.