so I've been parachuted on to a failed project

[Dallas]

And also senior management and board members will wade in and want a slice of the pie and add more meetings and paperwork

Is my world right now - on week 3 in new space and 5 people have resigned within that time.

Surrounded by hatred and suspicion but no deliverable.

eeejits

[norrahe]

The more a project gets into the tulip the more timewasting meetings and status reports will be demanded by managermen.

This is an iron law of project failure and it can only be resolved by strangling said managermen, but seeing as that's illegal we'll just have to live with it and invoice the stupid bastards .

And also senior management and board members will wade in and want a slice of the pie and add more meetings and paperwork

[Mich the Tester]

The more a project gets into the tulip the more timewasting meetings and status reports will be demanded by managermen.

This is an iron law of project failure and it can only be resolved by strangling said managermen, but seeing as that's illegal we'll just have to live with it and invoice the stupid bastards .

[eek]

Well, if you will insist in accepting work from brand new members in the professional forums who don't actually know what's wrong with their existing solution but who nonetheless insist there's only half a day's work needing doing, and who offer a budget of a whole £75 ("plus VAT if need be!") for that "half-day's" work...

I wasn't going near that. i'm happy to do emergency problem solving for new clients but the waiting list is 6 months at the moment.

Also plan c which we've discussed before means I won't be getting out of bed for less than £2k a day once this contracts done and dusted.

[kingcook]

Well, if you will insist in accepting work from brand new members in the professional forums who don't actually know what's wrong with their existing solution but who nonetheless insist there's only half a day's work needing doing, and who offer a budget of a whole £75 ("plus VAT if need be!") for that "half-day's" work...

[Gentile]

It's laughter definitely laughter. Every time I look at something a wonder who on earth could ignore a project for 6 months and then notice it's missing 50% of required functionality 2 weeks before release

It wouldn't be so bad but it's a minor rewrite of An existing system to remove a dodgy third party component.

Well, if you will insist in accepting work from brand new members in the professional forums who don't actually know what's wrong with their existing solution but who nonetheless insist there's only half a day's work needing doing, and who offer a budget of a whole £75 ("plus VAT if need be!") for that "half-day's" work...

[jmo21]

are you dev, test, PM?

unless they think they can make you the scapegoat and get away with it (eg. you get the boot) then it'll probably be fairly interesting, you can only do your best to manage what can be done in the time.

If it was permies that caused the problem, you can find lots of ways to needle them "incomplete requirements", "lack of planning", "poor resourcing" etc.

[eek]

so I've been parachuted on to a failed project

It's laughter definitely laughter. Every time I look at something a wonder who on earth could ignore a project for 6 months and then notice it's missing 50% of required functionality 2 weeks before release

It wouldn't be so bad but it's a minor rewrite of An existing system to remove a dodgy third party component.

[BrilloPad]

why do I spend the entirity of the twice daily status meetings trying not to laugh out loud.

Is it laugh or cry?

Or have you been blessed with the gift of schadenfreude?

[Mich the Tester]

why do I spend the entirity of the twice daily status meetings trying not to laugh out loud.

Because shortly that'll be three daily status meetings in the 'war room'.

[eek]

why do I spend the entirity of the twice daily status meetings trying not to laugh out loud.