Tuesday, November 5, 2019

This is a continuation of the earlier posts to enumerate funny aspects of software engineering practice:

290) Build a product that attracts so much attention for its flaws that it becomes a baseline for the next version.
291) Build a product that is efficient in servicing and support costs and find that the product is almost forgotten
292) Build a product that empowers customers to expand  their business and find the loyalty base doubling by those who bring in others. The product may have no change in functionality and this may have resulted from the efforts of the product management and sales team only.
293) Build a product that achieves aspiring quality goals during its development and find the release to have a smaller fixed tail.
294) Build a product where the fallouts of backlog are attempted even after code freeze
295) Build a product where the quality engineering tasks that were missed out during development are attempted to be squeezed inside the final run up to release
296) Build a product where the release engineering is a concerned about quality gates only to find that the product has not embraced shift-left movement
297) Build a product where the critical bugs are discovered last
298) Build a product where the documentation is delivered in its own releases and find the costs of customer interaction reducing drastically
299) Build a product where the product reduces interaction between user and administrator and find that users are multiplying by leaps and bounds
300) Build a product where the product shows savings made by the end user with the use of the product and find that the product gets mentioned favorably in management reports.
301) Build a product where the components behave like products and the product is an integration of those making for an integrated basket.
302) Build a product where the advertisement to the product is stolen by the appearance and unrelated story from the celebrity
303) Build a product where the customers are left confused by the advertisement on what the product can do
304) Build a product where the customers are left confused by the advertisement on what the product cannot do
305) Build a product where the customers feel rewarded for their efforts be it the ease with which cut and paste on the screen works.
306) Build a product where the customers can change the way their search results appear so they can put it in their own presentations.
307) Build a product that does not cover liabilities with legal language protection
308) Build a product that manipulates license towards intellectual property sharing
309) Build a product that has enough patents filed that partners find it difficult to work with.
310) Build a product that claims patents on features that make the competitors go to court.

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