I often walk through the Joel Test with sharply declining urgency ...
That is I more or less demand source control, work on automated builds/tests (on each commit, not daily), start to log everything I see in JIRA (or another tracker), Look for an up to date schedule (ie, discern business priorities and timelines), attempt to start specifying how future things ought to work, train my coworkers to see when I'm wearing earplugs to drown out their non work related chatter....
That is I more or less demand source control, work on automated builds/tests (on each commit, not daily), start to log everything I see in JIRA (or another tracker), Look for an up to date schedule (ie, discern business priorities and timelines), attempt to start specifying how future things ought to work, train my coworkers to see when I'm wearing earplugs to drown out their non work related chatter....
https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/08/09/the-joel-test-12-s...