Posted by Kevin Brady on Sun 1st October 2006 at 11:17 PM, Filed in Industry News
I was recently looking over Scott Berkin’s Blog when I came across a statement made by one of the project managers working on Microsoft Vista:-
“After months of hearing of how a certain influential team in Windows was going to cause the Vista release to slip, I, full of abstract self-righteous misgivings as a stockholder, had at last the chance to speak with two of the team’s key managers, asking them how they could be so, please-excuse-the-term, I-don’t-mean-its-value-laden-connotation, ignorant as to proper estimation of software schedules.”
Apparently they told their VP that Vista was going to slip big time. “And he, possibly influenced by one too many instances where engineering re-routes power to the warp core, thus completing the heretofore impossible six-hour task in a mere three, summarily sent the managers back to figure out how to make it work.” “The managers re-estimated, nipped and tucked, liposuctioned, did everything short of a lobotomy — and still did not have a schedule that fit.”
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My IT Management Philosophy has always been based on four key principals
which I have always considered to be independent of the current ‘flavour of the month’ in terms of IT development /project management methods:-
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When I started up this Blog some weeks ago, I aimed to make three postings a week. Unfortunately, it would seem that I have failed at the first hurdle due to ill health. I am currently in hospital with a severe Kidney infection. An x ray yesterday indicated that a number of small Kidney stones are aggravating my condition. All I can say is that irrespective of the diagnosis, my one preoccupation is PAIN RELIEF and keeping strangers out of my bed. YEAP you heard it, keeping strangers from sleeping with me!
Whilst being beside myself with pain, I have been tortured by being put next to someone called “Donald” who normally lives in a nursing home and who suffers from Alzheimer’s.
Last night it took two security guards to restrain him from getting into my bed 
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