Willir, you make an interesting observation, It has fascinated me how management makes assumptions when one is presenting a new solution. When I've used the word 'process', it is assumed that the process is a purely technical solution. The caveat, 'This is a human and technical process' goes...
SQLSister - The method you state is one I will definitely take to heart. It is the emotional response I am afraid of. I tend to shut up. Because when I do open my mouth I'm told that my direct candor may come off as offensive. When dealing with another strong personality we argue then agree and...
You are 100% correct. I did not speak up enough during that meeting. In my defense, My boss was the one to endorse the suggestion and was the first to make the comment regarding the fact we would never know. I was no longer in command of my senses since I was ranting nonsensical things like...
.....Or to stick with the plan. Many projects seem to fall behind just by the amount of time spent debating whether or not to acknowledge change requests.
One of may favorites happened about two years ago.
After spending considerable time working with the users to develop a precise solution...
Lionelhil - You make an interesting observation.
In many IT departments One seems to see a lot of project manager tasks as resource scheduling and managing expectations. It seems that the latter is nothing more than making up excuses for overruns and delays. In construction isn't there also a...
I've always been addicted to programming. I started writing games 30 years ago. That was fun and challenging. I avoided doing it professionally until about 15 years ago when I had to make rent. The business world has turned out to be just as boring as I feared.
When I worked on Star Trek on a...
You bring up a good point. The role of the project manager and recently I see the advent of a new popular role the Business Analyst.
I've only come across maybe two good project managers in the past 15 years. In both cases, they knew their roles and worked within their boundaries. They were...
My response was genuine. I have since learned that honesty can be a two edged sword.
Here's another example.
A new mgr. (same company) sat down myself and one of the other independent consultants in his office. He explained a problem he wanted resolved. We were each to give our opinion and bid...
This is my first post here so please bear with me. After reading some of the posts here, I feel not so alone in some of the dealings I've had over the years.
1. This is an actual conversation I had ten years ago regarding a project. I was one of a team of consultants.
mgr.- " It is now...
With Gentran we took the document and sent it to two locations. One directory was our ERP import directory. The second picked up the file and repackaged it for the second destination.
This was due to the fact that we passed through the header information (ISA and GS). You may also want to look...
As a Sterling customer, we purchased last year, When we rolled our AS/2 connection the Sterling sold to us Cleo Lexicom fo about $1500. This software product handles the AS/2 comm sessions for us. It also support our FTP, FTPs and even a VPN connection. I have found the product very easy to use...
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