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11-26-2017, 04:26 PM | #36836 | |
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11-26-2017, 04:56 PM | #36837 |
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Managed manager manages managerially.
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11-26-2017, 05:20 PM | #36838 |
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Yup, that's me. Present and accounted for.
Thinking back on my consulting career it looks like a long, tedious and continuous game of Bullshit Bingo. Example of 100% proof bullshit. Of the very, very expensive variety. If you're buying it. If you are the consultants with the gold leaf business cards, it's very profitable bullshit. Last edited by Sarlacc; 11-26-2017 at 06:01 PM. |
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11-26-2017, 06:13 PM | #36839 |
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The illustration is wrong for "Project Execution" - or that's a very funny looking guillotine.
I like Agile so much better: no one cares when projects are abandoned. Indeed, they aren't even abandoned any more; they adapt and update their requirements to the ever changing whims of "how best to line stock-holder's pockets with money while stiffing employees." Evidently the double entendre in that last part isn't quite so fashionable these days though. I have yet to find a place to exchange all the cynicism and sarcasm I've gathered over the years for cash, as promised... I think it may have been a dirty manager trick. C
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11-26-2017, 06:19 PM | #36840 |
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Funny they actually gave it a name these days, basically same shit repackaged with a different wrapping and bow.
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Also note that "Project Execution" does not mention actually producing or manufacturing anything real at all. Quote:
Agile can be hard to sell, though. "We don't know what we're going to make, what it will cost or when it will be done, but we think it will be very good!" It's much easier to produce a few hundred pages of technobabble with a hard-to-read price tag, get a signature on it and have the merry band of lawyers ready for the first missed deadline. |
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After seven years as a product manager in a corporate HQ with one company, director of marketing for another company, manager of new business development for another company and several years as a consultant ........ I'm glad I'm done with all that bull shit stuff ......
Now, all I have to plan for is what time school starts, what after school activities do I have to take the grandchildren to, do we have enough diapers on hand for the toddler and make sure the toddler doesn't doze off during the morning, so she will nap well with me while I'm taking my afternoon nap ...... pa-pa humfrz |
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Somehow I'm feeling both excited and miserable to be traveling for work right now. On my way to Bellevue. Whee.
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Oh yes, full rain suit and no silly umbrella. It's 60 and sunny in Chicago.
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Which reminds me of a story about umbrellas and Chicago. ( @Tcoat may wish to check this story ..... to see if I've told it before ..... ) For a year I worked in Chicago at IITRI (Illinois Institute of Technology Research Institute). Yep, not in one of the better parts of town. The entrance had two armed guards at all times and the entrance/lobby had bullet proof glass. So, when I left from work, I could be escorted to the train station platform (about a half block away), if I asked for it. Of course, I didn't because I was an Army trained killer. However, I would carry a folding umbrella (would fold to about the size of a billy club or handgun) in the pocket of my rain/over coat, and always kept my hand in my pocket. Now, thugs, guess what I have in my pocket ...... More than once I was asked by the policeman on the train platform what I had in my pocket ??....... Once I got on the train to my hotel downtown, I was fairly safe ...... as long as I stayed inside the loop. Yep, wearing a suit, carrying a briefcase and an overnight bag, in Chicago .... could be exciting ....... THE END humfrz |
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