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This article is missing a category: rain dancers. These people do something pointless but highly visible and take credit when something eventually goes right.
by cardboardshoe 8y ago
This article is missing a category: rain dancers. These people do something pointless but highly visible and take credit when something eventually goes right.
Suppose you a project manager forces a team of coders to run scrums and track progress in JIRA. Unless you're one of the coders, how can you tell whether the PM increased productivity or simply wasted time on making them appear more productive? Either is possible.
- gitgud 8y agoThat's a good phrase I haven't heard before. A good example of this is economists (not all) who continually make public predictions on TV, but are never held accountable for the results.
- EinIlithidBaron 8y agolol! i just quit a job because a bullshit scrum master got in my way of taking the reigns of the project, and tried to muscle my capacity to operate oh i'm the lead role, and i'm only allowed to work on N number of points per week or i wreck the curve? what about zero points? huh? what about that? still like your burn down? yeah.
- taneq 8y ago"rain dancers" is brilliant, I've seen a few of these over the years.