dlppgh t1_jdd99l5 wrote on March 23, 2023 at 3:52 PM

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

>I don’t think CMU deserves the bad reputation some people have about them.

My point is that this "reputation" gets thrown around when someone wants to lend power to their amateurish software projects, and in many cases, that works for them. Without question, CMU has some of the best people in the world doing things...and they have others. Nothing monolithic - either good or bad - should be assumed when the CMU letters get tossed in, but that mistake is often made. I hope you understand that point better.

ktxhopem3276 t1_jdd9jcx wrote on March 23, 2023 at 3:53 PM

> Nothing monolithic - either good or bad

That’s just a basic fact about any org

>I hope you understand that point better.

condescending

dlppgh t1_jddcr6e wrote on March 23, 2023 at 4:14 PM

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

ktxhopem3276 t1_jddhktf wrote on March 23, 2023 at 4:44 PM

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

dlppgh t1_jddr91u wrote on March 23, 2023 at 5:45 PM

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.