My boss decided to add a “person to blame” field to every bug report

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Post by duopixel » Fri, Jun 29, 2012, 2:09 PM UTC

My boss decided to add a “person to blame” field to every bug report
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Re: My boss decided to add a “person to blame” field to every bug report

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Post by zdw » Fri, Jun 29, 2012, 2:17 PM UTC

Time to file a bunch of "Corporate culture in rapid decline/freefall" bugs...

Re: My boss decided to add a “person to blame” field to every bug report

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Post by noonespecial » Fri, Jun 29, 2012, 2:22 PM UTC

The more blame you try to place the fewer commits you're going to get (and the ones you do get will be larger and full of "defensive code"). Less commits, less often will make the problem worse, not better because the merges will be larger and more painful, and more subtle systemic errors will become the norm.

This is one of those solutions that causes more of the problem its trying to solve. Management will love it.

Re: My boss decided to add a “person to blame” field to every bug report

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Post by kepioo » Fri, Jun 29, 2012, 2:29 PM UTC

huuu - some links you may want to send him read: http://codeascraft.etsy.com/2012/05/22/blameless-postmortems...

and if he'd rather check it out in his car, have him listen to John Allspaw and Mike Rembetsy talking about blameless postmortem on the food fight podcast (the relevant part starts around the middle of the show): http://www.foodfightshow.org/2012/05/episode-14-live-post-mo...