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I might take next week offOriginally posted by BR14 View PostIT'S ALL GOING TO GO HORRIBLY WRONG!
YOU'RE ALL GONNA DIE!
RUN AWAY!
RUN AWAY!

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“Don’t eat yellow snow.”Originally posted by woohoo View PostGive me some words of encouragement.
“Head down and follow through” Note that this applies on a golf course, not a curry house.
“What’s the worst that could happen?” (Edward J Smith, Titanic)
“What’s the worst that could happen?” (Lockheed Martin SM_FORCES engineers)
“What’s the worst that could happen?” (Cojak on proposing a new mod, WTFH)
More practical words:
1. Are all your timesheets and invoices up to date?
2. Have you found the weakest member of the team who can be blamed/sacrificed?
3. Have you filled your shared calendar with fake job interviews?
4. Have you created/hacked the issues spreadsheet to make it unusable?
5. Graphs. Pie charts. Lots of them. As meaningless as possible.…Maybe we ain’t that young anymoreComment
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Just come off a migration where all the quality gates were busted by issues being down graded by Group. The status report showed Red for most of the time but then went Green as the delivery was handed over, the fallout this morning to the company has been severe but no heads will rollOriginally posted by WTFH View Post4. Have you created/hacked the issues spreadsheet to make it unusable?
Tis the new Project Delivery model of hold the date rather than hold the service
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Close to standard practice these days. Management report what their bosses want to hear, unless they can find an obvious way to blame a different department/company.Originally posted by Benny View PostJust come off a migration where all the quality gates were busted by issues being down graded by Group. The status report showed Red for most of the time but then went Green as the delivery was handed over, the fallout this morning to the company has been severe but no heads will roll
Tis the new Project Delivery model of hold the date rather than hold the service
Beggars belief…Maybe we ain’t that young anymoreComment
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With such experts on hand, what could possibly go wrong....?Originally posted by woohoo View PostGive me some words of encouragement.
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