Sorting It All Out : One reason you should clean up warnings

Michael Kaplan posts an important reminder to keep tabs on your process, and a warning about the dangers that occur when management doesn't facilitate the laborers (which is frequent):

"First, the checkin made by the developer caused a build break.... He never noticed that our main application failed to build.

"The next guy in the chain...also ignored the warning that the application did not exist when building his package. And finally, after burning the CD, the test team...didn't test the fix; instead, they simply logged in and made sure the application launched.... Management routinely refused to buy them the tools to quickly re-image an OS and have a clean system to install, and insisted this CD get out the door before the FedEx office closed for the day."

That's no way to run a railroad. You'll probably feel relieved to know that this company is no longer in business.