The Daily WTF

It was time to start developing version 2 of Initech’s flagship software product. This meant planning meetings. So many planning meetings.

The most important one, for the actual development team, was the user story meeting. The core of these meetings was a few folks from the programming team, including Steve, the director of architecture, Brian, and a variety of product owners, responsible for different segments of the overall product.

As a group, they’d review the user stories, and approve them. Once they were approved for development, work would begin.

The meetings were difficult to schedule, because of the number of stakeholders, and they were viewed as a checkpoint- you can’t start implementing features until the product owner has walked through the user story with the team, but they were also a priority.

At the meeting, product owner Renee started walking the team through some of the features she owned. “So,

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