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I can only believe what you post, which was that you got phissed off when approached about not following procedure and walked out.
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Nope, but you carry on believing what you wantOriginally posted by oracleslave View PostReliable resources that quit at the first sign of trouble. Just what a PM needs
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Reliable resources that quit at the first sign of trouble. Just what a PM needsOriginally posted by BolshieBastard View PostI was once given a dressing down by a PM on a Home Office Project in the office for doing this.
I was so pissed off I walked off the job.
PM later got fired for poorly managing the project. Great stuff. 
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I was once given a dressing down by a PM on a Home Office Project in the office for doing this.
I was so pissed off I walked off the job.
PM later got fired for poorly managing the project. Great stuff.
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Not to mention management reporting statsOriginally posted by milanbenes View Post
does wonders for the P R
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I always encourage users not to open help desk tickets but contact me direct
does wonders for the P R
Milan.
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Were you talking to markers of the STATS?Originally posted by rootsnall View PostI've just been banned from talking to the end users
A lucky break as I was getting much too involved and doing quite a lot of work and even solving a few of their problems.
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have you had a bath recently?Originally posted by rootsnall View PostI've just been banned from talking to the end users
A lucky break as I was getting much too involved and doing quite a lot of work and even solving a few of their problems.
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Originally posted by rootsnall View PostI knew I should of patented what I believed to be my own unique non spec method of developing on the fly
The users now have to deal with a BPO
consultancy speak alert 
have
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What the end-users want and what the business wants are often two very different things. Having end-users involved in any project is bad news.Originally posted by rootsnall View PostI've just been banned from talking to the end users
A lucky break as I was getting much too involved and doing quite a lot of work and even solving a few of their problems.
And if the end-users disagree it just means you need a new set of end-users.
HTH
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Wish I could get the same thing.
Either that or ban the helldesk from talking to ANYBODY because they're totally fsckin' useless.
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I knew I should of patented what I believed to be my own unique non spec method of developing on the flyOriginally posted by NickFitz View Post
The users now have to deal with a BPO
consultancy speak alert
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Originally posted by rootsnall View PostI've just been banned from talking to the end users
A lucky break as I was getting much too involved and doing quite a lot of work and even solving a few of their problems.

Not an Extreme Programming shop then
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