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Fix Blockers Fast and Stressless

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Alina Lova's wroclove.rb 2024 lightning talk, positioned as a short, practical complement to Maciej Rząsa's 'Debug like a scientist' talk. Walks through a real blocker at SoftSwiss: clients reported they could not upload files in their CMS, pressing the upload button did nothing, and management was stressed because the CMS could not deliver new content. Investigation notes: the issue reproduced across two different CMS applications, so likely not on their side; testers narrowed the repro to Chrome on macOS only; the product owner proposed drag-and-drop as a workaround, which worked. A very human Google query ('mac can't choose file in Chrome') surfaced the answer — adjust macOS system preferences (Chrome file-system permissions). Copied to management, confirmed by team (devs, testers, PO), total resolution in under 15 minutes. Closing lessons: a blocker differs from a normal bug; accept the stressful situation first, suggest workarounds to unblock clients, and just focus and ask every question you need to ask.

date
2024-03-22
type
lightning-talk
person Alina Lova
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Fix Blockers Fast and Stressless talk
Delivered this lightning talk at wroclove.rb 2024.
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Fix Blockers Fast and Stressless talk
Closing lesson of the lightning talk.
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Fix Blockers Fast and Stressless talk
Drawn from the drag-and-drop workaround the PO offered during the blocker.
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Fix Blockers Fast and Stressless talk
Based on the Google search that directly produced the fix.
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Fix Blockers Fast and Stressless talk
Derived from isolating the bug to Chrome on macOS across two CMS apps.
talk Fix Blockers Fast and Stressless
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Lightning talk given at wroclove.rb 2024 on 2024-03-22.
talk Fix Blockers Fast and Stressless
related_to
Alina framed her lightning talk as a practical reference/companion to the earlier 'debug like a scientist' talk that day.

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