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So kind of like the stereotypical communist meetings where they spend all their time in meetings debating each other and obsessively discuss the finer points of
by dmix 2y ago
So kind of like the stereotypical communist meetings where they spend all their time in meetings debating each other and obsessively discuss the finer points of socialism instead of ever accomplishing anything.
- bitwize 2y agoI still remember one PM's response to my complaints about the number and length of meetings on one Scrum project I was on: "Let's have a huddle on the question of whether we have too many meetings?" (She tended to use a rising terminal in a very passive-aggressive, velvet-glove-on-iron-fist sort of way.)
- dmix 2y agoI’m so so happy no one at my company has a job title called PM That’s always a bad sign people justify with the work load generated by these same busy bodies
- bitwize 2y agoOh, it's worse than you think. My team were employees. But the PM and several developers all came from a Canadian consulting firm. We were being project-managed from the outside. And any time some piece of functionality needed to be added, the new boss kept asking, "Why don't you just use a stored procedure for that?" In the end, the boss decided to just fire everybody and replace us with Oracle stored procedures. Not even kidding, this is not a "things that didn't happen for $400, Alex".