Before I start the real post - first things first: Excuse me, I am NOT Racho! Next time you call me that, I shall go and edit thy post. I have admin rights, so there!! Psst - Did you do this cause your pals visiting MY blog were confusing me with another person called Rags? If yes, then it's fine. But an aside to those people - do you really think a very much loved, admired, and respected (!) project manager will come up with all this stuff? Naaah! I dislike others getting credit for my work - this started from the first project I did in STRIDE. My so called trainer got redundant after 2 months :-) Not that he was an idiot I was just made for this job. That's all - no vanity or lack of modesty - just a "purrrfect fit." Danke, now onwards ho ....
Happy says "I have decided that every time I read one of Ash's posts, I am inspired to write. " khee kheeeee kheeeeeee!!! How Annu Mallikish. Ash needs some thoughts usually from my mad banter to kick her thoughts off.... puts so much pressure on good ole moi! But it's okay, since I am the creative evil master genius!!!
ISO is not sick - the way we did rather screwed it was SICK!
Back to the SEI CMM and stuff - Happy prescribes his way of getting all crap to work to his advantage and how you can get management on the backfoot! Even bad publicity is publicity ... excuse me that's not how we (no I'll drop the royal we) ... correction I think .... do what you say WHEN you say it will be done. Doing things for the sake of doing them always and I MEAN ALWAYS gets me mad. A doc. being fudged 6 MONTHs after it should have been is a farce.
Instructional strategies - my foot! Happy dear, in all of NETg and in fact all of KSB we dredged some ancient relics and put on them some make up and got them to wear their dancing shoes and went to the homecoming ball!!! TIs creation - hah! your products and NETg background is showing .... The only SANE project that I got to do for KSB (then LTB) was CA - we were trained and had to clear external certification before we could work on that one. KK was SERIOUS abt this - but was LTB serious? Getting saving-a-hard-night's-work-on-a-CD-while-playing-online-chess on that project? Kash as an editor - who marked EVERY instance of Abrowser after being told that it's a product name?! It was on the darned wordlist too!!
FUFs on HP and Sun?! Who won't recognize a sun cluster even if it BIT her?! Who asked Mr.Undependable to create a web page which BOMBED cause its text fields accepted special characters and screwed the backend database. And all she had to do was pick up the phone and ask one of the SSB benchers to do it, who would have been happy to do so, and have done a BETTER job! Finally after the fiasco I called SSB and spoke with a biggie and got it all done. Of course I had to keep her in the loop and all that crapola, but who was the boss? Who should think all ALL sides to any action? She and most of the PMs were LIVING in quadrant 1, and when then SHOULD have been planning and stuff, they were doing something else. A PROJECT kick-off MOM 6 months down the line is akin to asking the parents of a 5 year old child for their wedding menu! How does it matter anymore?
What ID strategies are we talking about in CBTs / WBTs? Where the client defined template controls what you can / cannot do? MCLA, ILT - thats where you RUN with the content SME or no SME. You talk about CBT TIs? We were bidding for Sun SAN certifications!!!
Maintaining files is okay since we are anyways such over-documented people and a documentation profession at that. But what about the DARNED PM's responsibility? When you are brought in to salvage a NIIT-just-might-have-to-lose-a-client-or-(gasp!)-pay-a-penalty_level-of-dead project? And guess what 2 years SAME manager?! If I can see it, how come them bosses couldn't?
How can you justify the saving-a-hard-night's-work-on-a-CD genius? The sari-clad-benevolent-autocrat, also called iron-curtain-manager by an exchum?!
See now after so many years and after seeing some supremely asinine software industry managers who make even Dilbert's manager seem like sane rational beings... who are living proof of the validity of Peter's Principle, I know NIIT wasn't all that bad. WHY? Cause we were a cookie cutter model. It WAS a factory - we WERE doing production line work. So if few pieces were defective, we would hastily blotch up things and make it look pretty and no one was the wiser.
I am not talking about the ISO audit - you saw the HP project salvage so you know what I mean. You spent a LOT of time on these dead-as-a-doornail OPG projects so maybe you found HP another of the same sort. FUFs is still with the same bunch of femme fatales just their collective domain name has changed.
Somewhere I read about passion for one's work - it doesn't take too long for passion to turn to frustration, irritation, ....
And BTW "Attack is the best form of defense." on a playing field, so why do most managers take it as extreme insubordination when asked pointed questions? You are paid to resolve issues. You know you and a lot of people wonder why I dropped out of the managing people game? I will tell you why - u need to answer to such ignoramuses that it's a strain. They have their restrictions in terms of company policies, budgets, and all that BUT the biggest limitations are a lack of real interest, BRAINS, common sense, and that f-all need to bloody do PR all the time.
Look back and you will see the truth. You won't recognize it cause you too were playing the same game. Ash and I lost out cause our personal code of madness forbade us to do that. We foolishly expected our bosses to be on our side.
I have not had as bad a deal as Ash cause I didn't work with her namesake - I worked with adorable people - Nanz was the TOPPEST of the pile. Or maybe I don't feel as bad about them things ... my sunny disposition and all that jazz....
Sun gave me pain but Sun also gave me a great deal of good stuff and the PM had NOTHING to do with it. The lady FH had to intervene in all of FUF's projects. Maybe that was a part of the plan - she gave her boss a chance to shine so both were happy.
Even Pappu was sincere and painfully honest in his work. He had another set of issues but then who doesn't?! He was in an R&D setup, FUFs and co. were in the so-called-revenue-earing-factories. BIG difference.
The managers in there always could make the problem come from outside - they all had aced the "not invented here" bullshitting technique. Now I can take on any of them people. I hope I never have to. Ash and Bang might - since she is bored with the product world and is missing the constant upward surges of BP!!! And he is homeward-bound-yet-again!!!
Sorry Happy if this ended up a bash-up-the-messenger session. But I can go on and on and on ... Amaron!!! And yes, you were on of the better if not the best person to work with on HP salvage.
I can work with any damn idiot on the planet but I won't ever pretend to like them - they have to live with it. I am bearing that cross of being defient and a rebel - but thats my choice. AND as a manager and esp. my manager or supervisor, I expect to at least be able to like you as a professional, respect you, and maybe look up to you for solutions WHEN I run into trouble. To be treated fairly. And if you can't do it, let the TLs do their job, don't try to fib in SMRs.
Those who can't audit!
Hee heee heee, in your case, PM or not, we all HAD to look up physically!
Bye for now,
More later.
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