the evils of design

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Wednesday September 13, 2006

Current Project State:

Head Exploding.

The conversation goes sort of like this:

Management type walks by. "How's it going?"

You answer, "My head's exploding."

Them, "How come?"

Me, "I just put together a rough work list of all the stuff we have to do for the next release. There is no way we have enough people to do half of it."

Them, "Ok, so how many people do you need?"

The conversation continues a bit. I wander off to mull over how to scope, define, and tackle said work list. Head exploding appears to be a normal phase in the course of coming up to speed on a new project.

Then I realize - there must be a management training module called "How to Handle Employees under going Head Explosion". Right?

[evil laugh]

( Sep 13 2006, 12:48:05 PM PDT ) Permalink Comments [1]

Comments:

That sounds familiar. Some of wander further than others...

j.

Posted by Jon Ellis on September 13, 2006 at 05:37 PM PDT #