Cock up your project and a universe fails

[suityou01]

What about your project to move your xp vmware image to your laptop?

[original PM]

Isaac Asimov wrote a short story in which human civilization was merely an expermental culture monitored by a higher being. When highly intelligent humans began to guess the truth they were driven mad or to suicide by a kind of cosmic antibiotic.

Well, I thought it was a great story anyway.

I read this - along with many many of his others - I thought they were all great!

[NotAllThere]

Having always worked on successful projects, I have nothing to add.

What about your project to move your xp vmware image to your laptop?

[MarillionFan]

<seeks crayons>

<draws big picture of project manager>

Look MF, THIS IS A PROJECT MANAGER

<draws picture of SY01>

Look MF, THIS IS A PICTURE OF ME

D I F F E R E N T

PM is resonsible for the project. I am responsible for the requirements definition. According to the developers the requirements are clear. The code that gets delivered is constantly total arse.

PM ...... SY01 <pause hoping vacant expression disappears from MF's face>

Awwww fergerrit. I tried. You are just too stupid.

It's not your fault.

You've never been good with playing with fire have you.

[Zippy]

One phrase I always find intriguing is that "big bugs have little bugs etc."

Maybe you are a god and your most mundane action determines the entire course of a universe for the "bugs" below you. Minor software error? To you maybe but to the next layer down, you just achieved total genicide on a nation. I hope you can live with yourself.

PS I don't half think bollox when I've been at the Archers. I blame Mr P.

Isaac Asimov wrote a short story in which human civilization was merely an expermental culture monitored by a higher being. When highly intelligent humans began to guess the truth they were driven mad or to suicide by a kind of cosmic antibiotic.

Well, I thought it was a great story anyway.

[suityou01]

Ah! Just change the success critieria to one of abject failure and you succeed.

Very clever.

<seeks crayons>

<draws big picture of project manager>

Look MF, THIS IS A PROJECT MANAGER

<draws picture of SY01>

Look MF, THIS IS A PICTURE OF ME

D I F F E R E N T

PM is resonsible for the project. I am responsible for the requirements definition. According to the developers the requirements are clear. The code that gets delivered is constantly total arse.

PM ...... SY01 <pause hoping vacant expression disappears from MF's face>

Awwww fergerrit. I tried. You are just too stupid.

It's not your fault.

[MarillionFan]

My present project is a success if you consider the PMs objective HAS to be to fail all the ******* time. Therefore an unmitigated success.

HTH

Ah! Just change the success critieria to one of abject failure and you succeed.

Very clever.

[suityou01]

SY. I am assuming you are excluding your present contract from the above statement!?!

My present project is a success if you consider the PMs objective HAS to be to fail all the ******* time. Therefore an unmitigated success.

HTH

[MarillionFan]

Having always worked on successful projects, I have nothing to add.

SY. I am assuming you are excluding your present contract from the above statement!?!

[suityou01]

Having always worked on successful projects, I have nothing to add.

[threaded]

I doubt if the human race was the result of a bug free application, more likely one of Bob's efforts.

Yeah, who'd put the entertainment complex next to the sewage works?

[gingerjedi]

I doubt if the human race was the result of a bug free application, more likely one of Bob's efforts.

[xoggoth]

One phrase I always find intriguing is that "big bugs have little bugs etc."

Maybe you are a god and your most mundane action determines the entire course of a universe for the "bugs" below you. Minor software error? To you maybe but to the next layer down, you just achieved total genicide on a nation. I hope you can live with yourself.

PS I don't half think bollox when I've been at the Archers. I blame Mr P.