1. is tired of the semi-mandatory Friday afternoon karaoke sessions? If I hear One More Time one more time it’s not going to end well. If you saw Falling Down you know what I mean…
2. thinks there’s no way this product is going to ship on time even if Linus Thorvalds himself descended from the heavens on a white horse to join the dev team?
3. would like the CEO to share more information? I feel like I’m running around blindfolded.
4. is stressed out by the CEO sharing too much information. Sometimes the truth hurts.
5. That thinks we should work harder and more focused? Sometimes this office feels like a f-n day care center! What are we, a bunch of 6-year olds? I wanna change the world.
6. That feels our product decisions are too data-driven? I thought I joined a group of human beings when I took this job, not a bunch of nodes in a datacenter.
7. That feels our product decisions are too gut-driven? It’s like we’re in Las Vegas on the wrong side of the table… “This is not a good town for psychedelic drugs. Reality itself is too twisted.”
(I collected a few more at http://blog.otelic.com/?p=198, but no need to visit that page - I'm just wondering what people out there are curious about)
2. I remember being at a release meeting for a quarterly software update for a mainframe manufacturer. As they went around the room everyone declared their projects were ready. Until they got to me. I said our test suite was way behind schedule. (It was our first release.) Then they went around the room again and it seemed that everyone else was behind also. We actually did make the original schedule, but no one else did. (I make no claim that it always worked out that way. :-)
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1. is tired of the semi-mandatory Friday afternoon karaoke sessions? If I hear One More Time one more time it’s not going to end well. If you saw Falling Down you know what I mean…
2. thinks there’s no way this product is going to ship on time even if Linus Thorvalds himself descended from the heavens on a white horse to join the dev team?
3. would like the CEO to share more information? I feel like I’m running around blindfolded.
4. is stressed out by the CEO sharing too much information. Sometimes the truth hurts.
5. That thinks we should work harder and more focused? Sometimes this office feels like a f-n day care center! What are we, a bunch of 6-year olds? I wanna change the world.
6. That feels our product decisions are too data-driven? I thought I joined a group of human beings when I took this job, not a bunch of nodes in a datacenter.
7. That feels our product decisions are too gut-driven? It’s like we’re in Las Vegas on the wrong side of the table… “This is not a good town for psychedelic drugs. Reality itself is too twisted.”
(I collected a few more at http://blog.otelic.com/?p=198, but no need to visit that page - I'm just wondering what people out there are curious about)
2. I remember being at a release meeting for a quarterly software update for a mainframe manufacturer. As they went around the room everyone declared their projects were ready. Until they got to me. I said our test suite was way behind schedule. (It was our first release.) Then they went around the room again and it seemed that everyone else was behind also. We actually did make the original schedule, but no one else did. (I make no claim that it always worked out that way. :-)
The truth tends to have interesting domino effects :)