My second proudest development moment… and why I regretted it

A couple of years ago I wrote about “my proudest development moment“, where I triumphed over a bullying manager. Well, many years later, but at the same company, my second best development moment occurred. But, equally, why I regretted it – it’s a warning for us all! But, first, context is needed. Lots of context. Buckle up. What my role was At this point in time I worked in an EPoS (Electronic Point of Sale) Applications Development team. Basically, we looked after the company’s till software – fixing it, developing tools for it, that kind of thing. There was a separate development team who wrote all the new stuff, as well as making improvement to what was already there. Whereas once both team reported into the same senior manager, on the same vertical within the business, now we were both quite estranged from each other, which lead to the age-old issue of “one team creates something and doesn’t then care for it because someone else has to look after it”. Or “throwing it over a wall…