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I sent this to a project manager once, and they didnt understand nor appreciate it.
by yeuxardents 6y ago
I sent this to a project manager once, and they didnt understand nor appreciate it.
- cantsingh 6y agoThey must be a project manager.
- yeuxardents 6y agoI, perhaps appropriately, improperly calculated their threshold for humor.
- mkarliner 6y agoNo, he did't deliver the joke fast enough.
- oumua_don17 6y agoAnd neither did he create a jira story for delivering the joke in the sprint!!!
- Cthulhu_ 6y agoProject managers wouldn't read the story anyway, they cough up the headline and maybe a few lines of text and expect the team to fill in the blanks during multiple refinement meetings.
- faeyanpiraat 6y agoThis is the comment that made me laugh, well done!
- nvader 6y agoAdding another layer of indirection: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25866318 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25866318
- ssss11 6y agoI’m a project manager and find it hilarious! But i’ve also been technical.
- drno123 6y agoSo you are not "project manager", but "competent project manager", which is something completely different :)
- uncledave 6y agoI’ve never met one of them in the wild. A rare thing indeed.
- cornel_io 6y agoThey're actually more common than engineers with understanding of project management or the concerns that they quite reasonably have. And they're way more valuable than a zug-zug eng. I say this as a pure engineer who has been a lead many times but never a PM.
- KrishMunot 6y agoI bet a product manager would be more kind