In this project I’m working on, designers want to decrease their amount of work by blaming technical constraints.

The supposed “technical constraints” actually do not exist, as the stakeholders did tell me in the beginning “make sure that these issues do not exist within the selected solution”.

Now, I don’t have a single problem with them making their lives (and by consequence mine) easier by decreasing the scope of work, but I have said at least 2-3 times by now that there are no technical constraints, and started to do some paperwork trail that I did say that and when.

Not looking forward to see how all of this will turn out, but hoping that for once I am covering my back enough.

@jestdotty found out today that my manager and the designers are in cahoots. Pretty sure that I’ll be sacked at the end of this project 😞

@jestdotty had 1:1 and they told me very happily that designers’ idea of cutting scope.

It even feels surreal to me, how come someone just decides to deliver a quarter of the promised thing and manages to transform that into something positive. And every meeting they just carefully speak about the topic without saying out loud that scope is being cut or whom the hell decided to cut this scope and everyone is perfectly fine with everything.

Maybe I’m being paranoid but everything looks like a setup to me where they blame me, and play hero for “saving the project by delivering a quarter”

@jestdotty it’s kind of complicated. When all of this started I was told by manager that I’d be leading this project, now all the conversation changed to manager is the boss, that they and designers know what they are doing and all the mind games are things out of my head because designers said that I’m almost God myself (which doesn’t make sense by the way they treat me).

I’ve been working on not being targeted in certain meetings because they would do their best to paint me as incompetent, laugh on me and then disregard whatever said, even though they asked in first place.

Manager today said for me to do my best to speak and give my opinions in that exact meeting, so I feel like manager is in cahoots as they are too happy with things going this way.