Neil Hopcroft

A digital misfit

“Let me get this straight… you’re planning a major software release, a hardware upgrade and a minor release for code that hasn’t been written yet in the next three weeks and you don’t think theres any risk in shpping for our customers to hit the shops before christmas?”


Categories: Memories.

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        • neilh

          Its special in all the wrong kinds of ways. Especially when you’ve pointed out that nearly all the work you’re doing depends upon someone else doing their thing, and you’ve overestimated (by four times) the time it will take for your bit precisely because you know that you are going to end up spending three times as long explaining to the project manager again as you will in the implementation itself.

          I fear I may need a crate or two of those books.

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  3. neilh

    It was a gruelling meeting that ended with me looking my boss in the eye and saying “theres no way we’re going to ship this in time”…to a complete look of disbelief on his face.

    Oh, how I wish we had some idea about project manglement.

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  4. beermat

    All (well, most) companies are connected to Dilbert’s company through a pratchett-like L-Space. It’s too familiar yet still amazing.

    I’ve worked in cubeland. My email tag line at Phoenix (95-98) was “In cubeland, everyone can hear you scream”

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