Can we follow this with a 3 week rescoping exercise to determine what can be delivered in the next 3 months. Only to realise if you'd not wasted 3 weeks taking all your architects and developers off delivering and sitting round talking baout what you can deliver that you may have finished on time after all. Then to realise that the new scope which is 80% of what you would have delivered if none of the re-scoping had taken place can not be delivered as it was based upon a 3 month window, 3 weeks of which you've pissed away doing the scope.
Solution - have a further one week rescope to agree to deliver 50% of what you'd have delivered if the management had buggered off and play golf for a month.
So what happens to the missing 50% - that's phase 1+ - can't call it phase 2 as phase 2 is already scoped and based upon successfully delivering all the functionality of phase 1.
Round and round we go.......
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Breaking news; three people are now arguing about whether they're allowed to help each other, with one saying they're not, and two saying they won't be able to get something finished if they aren't. All because managerman says they're not allowed to help each other. Brilliant.
MTT can provide two options;
- don't help each other, don't finish things and then piss off home before managerman can ask you to do overtime
- just ignore the silly twunt and get on with it
I favour the second, but the first would be amusing.
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Issue report
Issue; Productive work blocked by defective managerman
Level; Showstopper/Annoyance
Impact; nothing, I'll invoice anyway
Detected; several times during the last few months
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Originally posted by Old Greg View PostRaise an issue.
As it stands, I just want to go home.
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Originally posted by Mich the Tester View PostJust had another meeting and managerman's planned yet another meeting for 4 o'clock. What a useless ****.
It'll be fun though; he's just instructed us that everyone must work on his own tasks and refuse requests for help from other team members. So at 4 o'clock we will be reporting a complete lack of progress.
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Just had another meeting and managerman's planned yet another meeting for 4 o'clock. What a useless ****.
It'll be fun though; he's just instructed us that everyone must work on his own tasks and refuse requests for help from other team members. So at 4 o'clock we will be reporting a complete lack of progress.
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Originally posted by ThomasSoerensen View PostThis is great.
Attent the meeting.
And think of the money!!!!!!
I recommend an android app called poop salary - it calculates the money you earn while doing something else than working (toilet breaks/meetings/whatever)
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Originally posted by Mich the Tester View PostYep, but I get my work done. They don't.
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Originally posted by pacharan View PostDon't know why you're complaining, you always seem to have plenty of time on your hands
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Originally posted by Mich the Tester View Post...so what do the unskilled, easily replaceable managermen do? They plan some extra meetings to discuss what has to be done 3 times a day. F&*king idiots.
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Originally posted by Mich the Tester View Post...so what do the unskilled, easily replaceable managermen do? They plan some extra meetings to discuss what has to be done 3 times a day. F&*king idiots.
Attent the meeting.
And think of the money!!!!!!
I recommend an android app called poop salary - it calculates the money you earn while doing something else than working (toilet breaks/meetings/whatever)
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Three down two to go.
Originally posted by Mich the Tester View Post...so what do the unskilled, easily replaceable managermen do? They plan some extra meetings to discuss what has to be done 3 times a day. F&*king idiots.
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Originally posted by SimonMac View PostI assume, like us, they spunk the whole day on internet forums whining how no one else can do their job properly
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I assume, like us, they spunk the whole day on internet forums whining how no one else can do their job properly
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Originally posted by Mich the Tester View Post...so what do the unskilled, easily replaceable managermen do? They plan some extra meetings to discuss what has to be done 3 times a day. F&*king idiots.
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