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Completely imaginary conversation ... > Look Mr. C-level, I built this amazing tool. Look at the graphs it produces. It allows _the_ user to customize paramete

by nanis 5y ago

Completely imaginary conversation ... > Look Mr. C-level, I built this amazing tool. Look at the graphs it produces. It allows _the_ user to customize parameters, track new things, and basically makes unicorns excrete rainbows. > OMG, I don't know the first thing about how computers work, but I love colorful pictures and unicorns. You are amazing. And, this is the first time you tried this stuff? > Yes, but these jerks over there, they won't put it on the web! They say it is insecure, risks revealing confidential data to the whole world, and can be used to infiltrate the company network. > But these are the best colorful pictures I've seen. Off with their heads!

tda 5y ago
And now how I imagine it would go: > Look Mr. C-level, I built this amazing tool that makes unicorns excrete rainbows. It is a PoC built in my own time cause I don't have time/money or a project. > Wow, great! We need this, it fit right into our strategy for Digital! Just go talk to Mr. Bozo, our head of Digital Innovation Strategy Management. > O, so you have an idea and want budget. Please write a two page memo describing how you can add value, who the internal client will be. Make sure you get steering council approval too and approval from our CISO. If you succeed I will present this to the board as something cool I am personally responsible for! O, and please ask the internal clients for funding, cause you are providing value right? They will be happy to put you in their year plan. The plans for 2022 have already been sent to the board for approval, but this can be the first thing for 2023! In the meantime I will buy an off the shelf solution with <big vendor> and pay a fortune to let them customize it so it doesn't work anymore. Before anyone realizes what a waste of money that was I'll be long gone, haha. Off to the <big vendor> sky box, they invited me to come watch the Super Bowl again.
- yarky 5y ago
  You can improve your chances of success by avoiding phrases such us: > It is a PoC built in my own time cause I don't have time/money or a project. That sounds like a complain, which might motivate others not to listen to you ;)
- dagw 5y ago
  I see we've worked at the same company :)

by nanis 5y ago

tda 5y ago

And now how I imagine it would go: > Look Mr. C-level, I built this amazing tool that makes unicorns excrete rainbows. It is a PoC built in my own time cause I don't have time/money or a project. > Wow, great! We need this, it fit right into our strategy for Digital! Just go talk to Mr. Bozo, our head of Digital Innovation Strategy Management. > O, so you have an idea and want budget. Please write a two page memo describing how you can add value, who the internal client will be. Make sure you get steering council approval too and approval from our CISO. If you succeed I will present this to the board as something cool I am personally responsible for! O, and please ask the internal clients for funding, cause you are providing value right? They will be happy to put you in their year plan. The plans for 2022 have already been sent to the board for approval, but this can be the first thing for 2023! In the meantime I will buy an off the shelf solution with <big vendor> and pay a fortune to let them customize it so it doesn't work anymore. Before anyone realizes what a waste of money that was I'll be long gone, haha. Off to the <big vendor> sky box, they invited me to come watch the Super Bowl again.

yarky 5y ago
You can improve your chances of success by avoiding phrases such us: > It is a PoC built in my own time cause I don't have time/money or a project. That sounds like a complain, which might motivate others not to listen to you ;)
dagw 5y ago
I see we've worked at the same company :)