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Originally Posted by ggregoro
It is fairly evident that this company, or at least this business unit of the company, does not know how to run a software development project. Whatever happened to under promise over deliver? It's a good bet that they don't have the "A" team working on this patch and the project manager is pretty much clueless as to their capabilities.
The guiding principles of the Montgomery Scott School of Project Management:
1. When the client asks for a new project, even when the specs are clear, deny the possibility of the task being able to be accomplished.
2. If pressed, multiply by 4 (or 8) the amount of time you think it might take.
3. When it only takes you twice as much time as you originally estimate, you will come out ahead by a factor of two (or four).
Ben Adams
http://mouthyamerican.blogspot.com/2...f-project.html
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I will see your "Space-Guys in their Jammies" quote and raise you one from the Ubisoft Q3 Financial statement...
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Sales for the third quarter of 2009-10 came to €495 million
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Clearly they don't have a clue about how to run a software development project.
And this Project Manager is an actual person (as opposed to a character on a bad 60's sci-fi program) and is a friend of mine so you might want to think twice about slandering someone who you have never even met.
JCC