I was sitting in a meeting last week on a WebEx call where the person on the call was describing some UI functionality in an application. Video and all. The behavior was a surprise to me (not in a good way) so restated my understanding of the operation to make sure I understood. A very common practice of mine, but it can make me sound dumb at times. On my statement, others around the table gasped and stated that I was wrong and the behavior was something else. I had heard wrong! Others around the table saw the same screens, video, heard the same words and had come to very different conclusion. This only became apparent when I restated what I had understood. To the shock around the room, my understanding was correct. Their faces spoke surprise that what they thought was true was false. This was a simple version. When you apply statements made by developers to managers or QA to developers, the repercussions grow larger. As we like to think that software development is
Just some random (isn't it all) thoughts and doings in my life.