Professional-PM Project Management - Fun

Real Programmers Code In Binary

root — Fri, 06 Feb 2004 10:23:49 +0100

How true this is ... the "can-do" attitude together with the "real programmers"-attitude is probably one of the issues causing troubles in some projects, don't you agree? I think both are very high-risk positions, especially if your customer's have similar a point of view.

Thanks to Matt Payne and his friend Dan for this one :-)

Dilbert on Extreme Programming

root — Mon, 08 Dec 2003 16:32:44 +0100

Thanks to J2EEGEEK I could find this great Dilbert cartoon...

Very funny, because my project is an XP aswell - fortunately my customer understood the advantages and disadvantages and helps enforcing small featuresets per release... oh - btw: release in 1 week :-)

Google Doogle

root — Sun, 07 Dec 2003 01:13:54 +0100

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Typical Project Life

root — Tue, 09 Sep 2003 22:57:38 +0200

Thanks to Edl for this worldrockin' cartoon!

I have no idea who's courtesy this one is, but I love it!

Dakota Indian tribal wisdom on project management

root — Tue, 22 Jul 2003 16:55:18 +0200

in Dakota Indian tribal wisdom on project management Anders posts something I read some month ago in Tom Peter's great book:

The tribal wisdoms of the Dakota Indians, passed on from generation to generation, says that 'when you discover that you are riding a dead horse, the best strategy is to dismount'. However, in many companies as well as in the UN and NGO community a range of far more advanced strategies are often employed, such as:

1. Changing riders
2. Appointing a committee to study the horse

3. Arranging to visit other countries to see how others ride dead horses

4. Lowering the standards so that dead horses can be included

5. Reclassifying the dead horse as 'living impaired'.

6. Hiring outside contractors to ride the dead horse

7. Harnessing several dead horses together to increase the speed

8. Providing additional funding and/or training to increase the dead horse's performance

9. Doing a productivity study to see if lighter riders would improve the dead horse's performance

10. Declaring that as the dead horse does not have to be fed, it is less costly, carries lower overhead, and therefore contributes substantially more to the mission of the organisation than do some other horses

11. Rewriting the expected performance requirements for all horses...