A recurring advice for job seekers is to show how they helped in improve a company’s profitability. That may work in sales, but is a bit more difficult in IT. IT – like construction – usually works against moving targets. Specs change. The effect of spec changes is sometime indirectly proportional to what project manager’s…
I once read that 90% of Canadians live within a 2 hour drive to the US (or something like that). Target is just the latest American company with a failed attempt to make it in the Canadian market. Many people mentioned the fact that their US Target experience was very different from visiting a store…
Analyst says this should take about an afternoon to code Analyst says the users signed the specs. He forgot to ask them if they also read the specs Manager told me that this is how users get their work done. Apparently the users did not know that I have like 59 versions of this program,…
My favorite example is the military. Generals always want something for the future. So we end up with a helicopter that has all the weapons systems available, but it does not fly because it is too heavy. On the other side there is the Kalashnikov. Most successful gun ever. Very good at shooting and killing…