Originally posted by Mich the Tester
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Originally posted by MarillionFan View PostBack in at clientco on Monday on another 3 monther. Had a chat yesterday to see what I was working on and they've given me Project Poison Chalice. A project based out of Canada due to complete May 2012. Clientco have agreed to do a piece of work that a previous outsourcer spent £1M on, failed to deliver and got kicked off the contract. Clientco have won it for £400k and stuck me down as lead. I knew I shouldn't have gone to the initial design meetings.
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Originally posted by MarillionFan View PostBack in at clientco on Monday on another 3 monther. Had a chat yesterday to see what I was working on and they've given me Project Poison Chalice. A project based out of Canada due to complete May 2012. Clientco have agreed to do a piece of work that a previous outsourcer spent £1M on, failed to deliver and got kicked off the contract. Clientco have won it for £400k and stuck me down as lead. I knew I shouldn't have gone to the initial design meetings.
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Back in at clientco on Monday on another 3 monther. Had a chat yesterday to see what I was working on and they've given me Project Poison Chalice. A project based out of Canada due to complete May 2012. Clientco have agreed to do a piece of work that a previous outsourcer spent £1M on, failed to deliver and got kicked off the contract. Clientco have won it for £400k and stuck me down as lead. I knew I shouldn't have gone to the initial design meetings.
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There aren't really any numpties on this project, in fact I've rarely worked with so many thoroughly competent technical and business people; the big problem is Project Managers and Line Managers with the social skills of dogpoo and the emotional stability of a long stay patient at Broadmoor Hospital, who fail to understand that gaining the trust of (and the signature of) acceptants is not simply about showing lists of deliverables and what you've delivered, but about inspiring in your acceptant or customer a feeling of trust; that cannot be achieved with excel sheets, and certainly not by flying off the handle every day, but only with good social skills combined with understanding the acceptant's business and demonstrating some empathy with the people who will be using the software.
I actually don't mind too much; I'm fairly experienced in dealing with unstable personalities, regularly gain advice in such matters from Lady Tester, who is trained and highly experienced as a psychiatric nurse, and I usually get hired because a project is in trouble. It can however get a bit tiring when alongside being responsible for my own temperament and emotions, I have to manage three other people's temperaments for them, including a board member of a blue chip company, who really should know better.Last edited by Mich the Tester; 3 November 2011, 10:08.
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Originally posted by ChurchillNo It Isn't!
You're not quite in the BrilloPad league, yet, though.
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Originally posted by suityou01 View PostBut have you been in the situation when you are just working with a bunch of oxygen thieves on a project?
Originally posted by suityou01 View PostDid the column dodger get tulip canned?
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Originally posted by Churchill View PostUnder the definition used when I was a schoolchild and found such trivialities amusing.
Here's the first 19999 numerical palindromes - starting with 0 and ending with 99999999
You could also check A Handbook of Integer Sequences (N. J. A. Sloane) and The Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences (N. J. A. Sloane and Simon Plouffe) if you really want to show how wrong you are.
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Back on subject.
Be careful what you point out to people as the old adage, he who smelt it dealt it, is going to be bang on the money when they point the finger at you.
Phewwwwww.
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