Thought I would actually have some fun with this task. Then I got the catch. I had to split up the work and assign some of it to another developer on the team. This other guy has hours to work on our project. And he needs some work. The reason I figured this was a setup was because I have worked with the guy before. He needs a lot of hand holding.
Now I don't mind helping out a junior developer or even a new developer. But the guy I needed to work with is supposed to be a senior guy. And he is not new any more. So the management folks figure with his help, we should be able to get things done more quickly. On paper that is fine. In reality, not so good.
So I carved out a little over 25% of the work to give to the other guy. He had some questions early on. I tried to explain the answers to him. The he went loose. When he got to the one piece that was a bit more complicated, he was lost. I had to spend a bunch of time going over it with him in detail. It
took a few sessions. But I think it got through.
The last part of the task was to roll up both our work into one package. It all needs to go out into one release. So I did what I would do if I were developing the work myself. I slowly added the other guy's stuff into mine one small piece at a time. And let's just say there was pain as I debugged the errors and got the stuff to work. How can I get out of this type of setup? Maybe that is the point. I got to figure out how to work in this challenging situation.
