When was the last time you delivered anything on time, with fully developed features, that wasn't riddled with bugs?
Can you remember? I can't remember that far back.
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I know CyberRecovery is dying a slow death. It's losing market share to everyone. Blame ISG management for that one.
@dc Does Dell know anything about Data Protection? He-l no!! According to our storage and server customers, Cohesity, Rubrik, Commvault, Veeam, and Druva are light-years ahead of Dell. Meanwhile, Dell keeps trying to sell unsupported and outdated legacy EMC agents that haven't been touched in over 10 years.
@dc the armpit of ISG
@c9 SoS is so last year.. now AI and cells with "shared context" and gazillion skills will fix everything.
AI software development will hasten releases and errata fixes.
Gotta get on this train.
@OP ISG leadership doesn't understand the question. Can you put it it simpler terms?
Dont worry, powerflex 6.0.2 will be released, then they will update 4.8. Then release 5.6.7.
@bw ISG Data Protection in Hopkinton
@d6 And yet we're still years behind the competition in virtually every category.
I was recently told that speed matters more than correctness. That tells all you need to know about Dell commitment to quality.
@c9 Our engineering and product development leaders don't even know what scrum is. That doesn't fix anything.
I thought that 'Scrum at Scale' was going to fix everything?
@bc What group are you in? In our group, we never release anything on time. "On time" means when the release was initially planned, not when it was rescheduled over and over again because we missed our original milestones.
All our product and development leaders do is reset the timelines in JIRA. That and we never do any test automation, which is why our solutions are so buggy. We have to drop everything and fix bugs after the customer is already upset. This then pushes the next release out. It is a management problem, yes, but it's also a process problem and a limited skillset problem in that few engineers in ISG know how to test their own code.
When Inbar was our engineering leader and we were held to hirer standards. Our SVPs are middle managers with middle manager mindsets. They polish their rocks and are talentless.
Yep, ISG management forces us to push out releases with known bugs. We make our opinions known to management that this is not a good idea, but they do not care. It's all about getting something delivered on time...regardless of bug count. Doesn't look good in Jira if you miss the deadlines. So, if the product su-ks, it's not engineering, it's our management...but guess who gets laid off...and it's not management.
All software has bugs but you're right, our enterprise solutions have a lot of incomplete features and tons of bugs that take way too long to get fixed. Makes it hard to keep customers happy.