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Previously on "Projects and project processes"

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  • cojak
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    Originally posted by Dallas View Post
    I am forcing my lot through CR, I need to be abole to publish their request for rainbows and bunny rabbits (eg) to external audit to show just how stoopid they are.

    One of our boxes is called PFM: Pure F%&*("* Magic
    I use the term "sprinkling fairy dust"

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  • original PM
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    Originally posted by eek View Post
    Don't many systems have that. Its called the power switch...
    Shhh that's a secret ;-)

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  • eek
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    Originally posted by original PM View Post
    Yeah after a particular stooped request which I think was

    "If the system fails we want a button we can push which will make it work again"
    Don't many systems have that. Its called the power switch...

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  • cojak
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    You know when a project is in BIG trouble when management announces it's 'going agile' witihn 2 months of launch...

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  • original PM
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    Originally posted by kaiser78 View Post
    It's taken 2 years to come up with a process ?? Take it it's not an agile process...
    Lol it was agile ish

    we started over 2 years ago and refined the process over successive projects to the point where we had an agreed process which had been proven to work.

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  • Antman
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    I try to avoid ads for roles which mention Agile in them. Agility on the other hand...

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  • kaiser78
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    Originally posted by original PM View Post
    Ho Hum!

    So we spend about a 2 years working on a decent paperwork light solid project process which has been proved to work.

    And then one of the exec's has a brain fart and we have to just do it now with no controls.

    Why do these people get employed to do anything but shovel $h!t

    It's taken 2 years to come up with a process ?? Take it it's not an agile process...

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  • barrydidit
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    What you all said.


    So long as I'm not on my own I feel slightly happier less miserable about the institutional schizophrenia around me.

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  • vetran
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    Business decided to do a finance move without a project.

    First month End and it was like 3 mile island for panic, oh how we laughed.
    Snottograms because they hadn't got access X &Y and full pram expulsion when I sent them the SOX forms to get access.

    This was just after doing a warehouse move that was fully IT PM'd that went flawlessly (apart from the warehouse only shipping part of a printer the only IT related thing they had to do without me standing over them). You would have thought they would have learnt.

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  • original PM
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    Originally posted by Dallas View Post
    I am forcing my lot through CR, I need to be abole to publish their request for rainbows and bunny rabbits (eg) to external audit to show just how stoopid they are.

    One of our boxes is called PFM: Pure F%&*("* Magic
    Yeah after a particular stooped request which I think was

    "If the system fails we want a button we can push which will make it work again"

    Our developer lost the plot and asked one of the exec's if they wanted f......g Unicorns barfing rainbows to appear when they pressed it as well..

    Oh how we laughed on the way to the job centre!

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  • Dallas
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    I am forcing my lot through CR, I need to be abole to publish their request for rainbows and bunny rabbits (eg) to external audit to show just how stoopid they are.

    One of our boxes is called PFM: Pure F%&*("* Magic

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  • eek
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    Originally posted by original PM View Post
    and that is exactly how people who do not have a clue what Agile is see it as,

    an excuse to not have proper control and the ability not to have to commit to anything and be able to chuck in last minute changes but keep the same go live date.

    It's magic!
    I know. Its actually far funnier than that but that requires alcohol to cover the full glorious mess.

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  • Dallas
    replied
    I am forcing my lot through CR, I need to be abole to publish their request for rainbows and bunny rabbits (eg) to external audit to show just how stoopid they are.

    One of our boxes is called PFM: Pure F%&*("* Magic

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  • original PM
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    and that is exactly how people who do not have a clue what Agile is see it as,

    an excuse to not have proper control and the ability not to have to commit to anything and be able to chuck in last minute changes but keep the same go live date.

    It's magic!

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  • eek
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    Originally posted by Dallas View Post
    Management by CR - excellent, is that like Agile v0.2
    CRs? its agile as that allows them to avoid creating CRs they just slap changes in and pretend they have always been there!!!!
    Last edited by eek; 24 October 2014, 11:26.

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