5 developers. A new project integration. A flight to meet the team in person.
We spent three working days just getting our local environments running. Different OS versions, missing dependencies, and setup steps that only one person on the team knew by heart.
At the time, it felt normal. That’s how software development works, right?
I've been thinking about that trip a lot lately. 3 days. 5 developers, all blocked, doing zero actual work. 15 person-days burned before a single line of code was written.
How many days have you personally lost to #environment #setup this year?
