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>Haha, I was a consultant and you paint a very idealistic picture of the situation. It usually went something like this in my experience: 1. I did not claim to
by vram22 8y ago
>Haha, I was a consultant and you paint a very idealistic picture of the situation. It usually went something like this in my experience:
1. I did not claim to "paint" the full picture.
2. I did not paint the picture. Was saying what my ex-manager said to me.
3. The plural of anecdote is not data.
Interesting to hear of your experience, though.
Regardless of your experience, systematically collecting and analyzing data on prior projects, with a view to applying the learning to future ones, is useful, for any discipline, not just management consulting or software engineering. That's part of how progress in any field happens.
- vram22 8y agoAlso, I'm well aware of the "golmaal" (Hindi slang term) that goes on in any field. Hey, it's common knowledge. But that does not invalidate work of the good actors in the field.
- vram22 8y agoSorry, I didn't explain what golmaal means in English, also may have used the wrong word. I meant something like skullduggery, but golmaal means chaos or confusion (according to Quora, at least).