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Same goes for presentations. All meetings I have been in for the last 15 - 20 years starts with "This is a high-level view". Which means "I am to lazy to anal

by jmclnx 4y ago

Same goes for presentations. All meetings I have been in for the last 15 - 20 years starts with "This is a high-level view". Which means "I am to lazy to analyze details". Spreadsheets and presentations feed in into this. When I start showing details, people "turn off", no wonder many projects fail. When I started out in IT, almost all meetings were to examine details and people would work to tweak the resolution to make it better. Spreadsheets like 123 started becoming mainstream in the late 80s, then slow slide to "High Level" started. Then the trend greatly accelerated when presentation software became mainstream. Before that, it was easier to talk details then to create a slide deck for an overhead viewer.

commandlinefan 4y ago
> "I am to lazy to analyze details" Or more charitably: the artificial and unnecessary deadline that was placed on me by the same people who obsessively track efficiency and numbers didn't allow for time to analyze details.
corrral 4y ago
> Spreadsheets like 123 started becoming mainstream in the late 80s, then slow slide to "High Level" started. Then the trend greatly accelerated when presentation software became mainstream. Before that, it was easier to talk details then to create a slide deck for an overhead viewer. I think that in some cases the absence of limits or costs can make things worse. Suddenly gets way cheaper to collect a bunch of numbers and analyze them? We'll no longer be careful and thoughtful about what we subject to that kind of analysis, because it's so cheap. My go-to example of this is kanban boards and similar tools. They clearly lose something if you translate them from a physical board with physical limitations to a computerized "board" with practically no limitations. The computerized version is better from some points of view (who likes limitations?) but also so different that it's arguably worse in some ways, depending on what you want the board to accomplish.

by jmclnx 4y ago

commandlinefan 4y ago

> "I am to lazy to analyze details" Or more charitably: the artificial and unnecessary deadline that was placed on me by the same people who obsessively track efficiency and numbers didn't allow for time to analyze details.

corrral 4y ago

> Spreadsheets like 123 started becoming mainstream in the late 80s, then slow slide to "High Level" started. Then the trend greatly accelerated when presentation software became mainstream. Before that, it was easier to talk details then to create a slide deck for an overhead viewer. I think that in some cases the absence of limits or costs can make things worse. Suddenly gets way cheaper to collect a bunch of numbers and analyze them? We'll no longer be careful and thoughtful about what we subject to that kind of analysis, because it's so cheap. My go-to example of this is kanban boards and similar tools. They clearly lose something if you translate them from a physical board with physical limitations to a computerized "board" with practically no limitations. The computerized version is better from some points of view (who likes limitations?) but also so different that it's arguably worse in some ways, depending on what you want the board to accomplish.