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[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Bit of a chilly start out there at -1°C with frost on the stable roof, but also a rosy-fingered dawn, so maybe it'll warm up soon

[WTFH]

Morning all

[BR14]

[barrydidit]

Time for lunch.

I need to venture forth into Bradford for this. Stab vest on

[BR14]

Time for lunch.

I need to venture forth into Bradford for this. Stab vest on

Stab vest? - you going scuba diving??

[BR14]

Right! - off to rattle some hickory on mylar and bronze.
Cover me . i'm going in.................................

[original PM]

:sigh:

wednesday

:sigh:

[barrydidit]

Stab vest? - you going scuba diving??

Not going sub-aqua, just amongst the sub-normal.

As it happens, it was a red light jumper who nearly got me but I was too quick on my pins. His registration began CL17 which I thought was appropriate.

[NickFitz]

Petrol station lunch day

Except I went to the new Morrison’s instead. Pros: cheaper petrol, and pay-at-pump. Cons: have to walk further to get my, as opposed to the car’s, lunch.

Next week I might try passing on the pay-at-pump and see what food there is in their petrol station shop. If need be, I’ll have to accept the extra 4p or so per litre and go back to BP/M&S.

[WTFH]

Here's why I'm not a project manager...
Last week the business leads asked for a list of tasks and the order they should do them, along with a list of what I'd be working on.
I produced two lists. 18 lines in total - 10 for them, 8 for me, all nicely numbered.
One list had "Business" at the top, the other had "Systems"

After a one hour phone call with a PM, this is now a spreadsheet with 7 columns. These are:
1. Who is doing the work (it says Business or Systems),
2. What the work is (my original list)
3. What dependancies there are (should be by number, but no, he put a description and names against each one)
4. Who is supporting the work (always Systems)
5. More detail on what the work is (looks like column 2 but with extra words)
6. Notes (column 2, column 5, plus a bit extra)
7. Date (at one point this contained further notes, but is now a date. Not a due date, not an end date, mostly a start date)

Not only is it full of repetition, but you have to scroll across the screen to see things. Want to see what is due next week? Well, we can't sort by date because then we lose the order they are in, since we're not numbering them. So, look at the date, then scroll to the left a little to see the notes. Then I point out that I just want to see what the work is, because then I'll know what we're talking about.

/rant