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Previously on "Blind optimism as a Project Management Tool"

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  • Churchill
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    Indecision Increases Invoicing
    Chaos Creates Cash

    Hth.

    Spod

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  • eek
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    Originally posted by Mincepie View Post
    Just keep invoicing and Ensure your professional liability insurance is upto date, it will all be OK.
    FTFY

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  • Mincepie
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    Just keep invoicing and the bogey man wont come to get you, it will all be OK.

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  • suityou01
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    Originally posted by BrilloPad View Post
    Have you ever been on a project you were not disappointed in? Except for the one to increase the population of Luton.....
    Several. Also Plan B project is successfully managed by me.

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  • suityou01
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    Originally posted by LondonManc View Post
    Do you put ALL of that on your cv?
    Yes. I even have a special CV tailored to data migrations.

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  • DimPrawn
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    Project Management Tool
    You overheard the permies talking about you then?

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  • LondonManc
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    Originally posted by suityou01 View Post
    Not currently working out that great for the PMs here.

    I can't help but feel disappointed on the project as a whole. When you have a fixed immovable deadline, then all the little deadlines in between times are really really important.

    2 weeks from go-live, no working test environment, what fragments of a test environment we have I have migrated the data into. It's in about the shape I thought it would be on the first attempt. Oh ok, a wee bit worse, but the team I've been given aren't that great.

    Still for all my warnings, and "I must have this by this date", we are now well and truly in the tulipe.

    But still the PMs are upbeat and positive. There is no one on the team that doesn't get just how ****** things are. It's palpable.

    I have to know how these guys can ignore the sage advice of a seasoned contractor, that delivers 2-3 data migrations per year, let it all fall to tulip and just keep smiling?
    Do you put ALL of that on your cv?

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  • BrilloPad
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    Originally posted by suityou01 View Post
    I can't help but feel disappointed on the project as a whole.
    Have you ever been on a project you were not disappointed in? Except for the one to increase the population of Luton.....

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  • DimPrawn
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    Wilmslooooooooooow is looking for work if you want to expand the dynamic team where you are.

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  • suityou01
    started a topic Blind optimism as a Project Management Tool

    Blind optimism as a Project Management Tool

    Not currently working out that great for the PMs here.

    I can't help but feel disappointed on the project as a whole. When you have a fixed immovable deadline, then all the little deadlines in between times are really really important.

    2 weeks from go-live, no working test environment, what fragments of a test environment we have I have migrated the data into. It's in about the shape I thought it would be on the first attempt. Oh ok, a wee bit worse, but the team I've been given aren't that great.

    Still for all my warnings, and "I must have this by this date", we are now well and truly in the tulipe.

    But still the PMs are upbeat and positive. There is no one on the team that doesn't get just how ****** things are. It's palpable.

    I have to know how these guys can ignore the sage advice of a seasoned contractor, that delivers 2-3 data migrations per year, let it all fall to tulip and just keep smiling?

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