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On 2/3/2022 at 1:25 AM, Robert Norte said:

Yeah no offense to the original comment, but 15+ years in any field doesn't mean anything. You could be one of the worst developers ever and you can still survive in this industry. I'm not commenting on your skills, but you get my point.

From what I've gathered, CGC's dev team (which is pretty small from what I've read here) seems to handle their development, testing, release, and maintenance of their entire infrastructure so it's understandable that it's taking longer than expected. Furthermore, releasing a population report tool with bad data isn't the same as releasing day 0 features with a few bugs. Any erroneous data may have a large effect on the graded card market with respect to CGC (and even other companies) so I think it's the right decision to get this right coming out the door.

None taken, I was explaining my background leading software development projects, before stating my opinion so that the audience understands where my opinions came from. so that people know that the opinion not coming out of a thin air. it's based on actual experiences.

So, no offense I disagree when you said it doesn't mean anything, in my view it does mean something. 

Would you listen about a home-building advice from a builder with 15 years of experience even if it doesn't guarantee that he's good at what he's doing, or someone with no experience in home-building whatsoever?  Or medical advice from a doctor, bridge-building from a civil engineer, and so on.

All I did was giving different perspective that taking 2 years to release a website does not always equate to the perfect product., 

On 1/22/2022 at 11:04 AM, bulldog1986 said:

As someone who QA's and supports the product that my developers push out, I disagree. All too often I see developers half-azz things to the point where their customer service reps have to take it in the neck for something their developers didn't have time to troubleshoot and forced out, or didn't take time to foresee and pushed out a half assed product. Given that their customer service reps are probably already getting it in the neck and have been the past 1.5 years, I'm sure they would appreciate a smoother release rather than a rocky one that you patch up. Rushed work equals shoddy work.

Sounds like the issue in your situation is the bad developers, not the project management methodology itself.

Bad developers will jeopardise any software development project whether it is a "rushed" development or "taking it's time and getting it right for 2 years".

Let's say, hypothetically speaking CGC developers are bad, and CGC should take time because 'they'll need time to get it right'.

IF the developers are bad they'll mess up the Pop Report site no matter how much time they're given, So don't think it's a valid argument to make.

Apple, Microsoft, Google, Spotify, Adobe, Netflix stopped using big bang development have been using Agile project methodology for decades and it's for a good reason

These companies has a lot more at stake and image to protect than a grading company.

Anyway, Paul said Mid/Late Feb, let's hope it doesn't get delayed again.

As someone with 15 years experience software development, I can tell you that taking a long time to deliver a software does not always equate to "getting it right". 
This "big bang" type of go-live deployment with the complete set of bells and whistles often turns into a disaster, because the development team is trying to build the "perfect" system, when sometimes it can be subjective.
It's better to deliver Minimum Viable Product (MVP), get the core features out of the door as soon as possible, gauge everyone's feedback and continuously improving the system. Obviously I'm not implying to cut corners, the foundation of the application has to be right. 

I can't believe that company of this magnitude still don't adapt Agile software development methodology in 2022. All we need is just an interface to tell us how many CGC 10 Charizard are existing in the population and CGC can always improve and introduce more features after the initial release.

On 5/29/2021 at 6:10 AM, Robert Connolly said:

 

Economy Submission - with Subs

Received: 1-12-2021

Scheduled for Grading: 5-11-2021

Grading/Quality Control: 5-27-2021

Shipped: 5-28-2021 (still says grading quality control through)

So it took them a day to grade basically.

Meanwhile my Express sub (5 cards) has been sitting under Grading/Quality Control for over 10 days.