Blame-Driven Development – A satire about how software gets built
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- Blame-Driven Development (BDD) introduced as a new methodology ensuring no code ships but assigns blame clearly.
- Designer admits to having 38 versions of a checkout flow, two named 'DO_NOT_USE_THIS_ONE_FINAL'.
- 74-year-old grandma PM outperforms McKinsey hotshot in unblocking projects.
- Exec struggles with opening PDFs, still stuck on the cover.
- Developers admit to creating job-security-driven code chaos.
- Senior leader questions project premise, undoing months of workshops.
- PM excited about Outlook redesign adding a single 'Forward' button.
- Confluence page crashes server due to excessive content on login flows.
- Developers use AI to tactfully assign blame in Jira comments.
- Sales & Marketing accidentally predict market accurately while making up numbers.
- New dad admits 'working from home' was less productive pre-parenthood.
- RAG Status Olympics sees teams competing to hold 'Amber' indefinitely.
- Developers demand early Figma access to assign blame sooner.
- Design org structure changes again, centralizing after previous decentralization.
- Senior dev spends more time on music side project than production bugs.
- Article lists 15 reasons your blame game is off, admitting only 14 were thought of.