unwritten laws of data processing, circa 1973

[Dave Britten]

(05-01-2019 01:50 PM)Don Shepherd Wrote:  Another factor that leads to project failure is when managers think all they have to do is consolidate status reports from their underlings and not know a thing about what their people are really doing. Good managers know exactly what their people are doing, and why, and the problems they face.

I once had a project manager go around the room during a status meeting (well into the project schedule) asking each participant what tasks they currently had assigned to them. It felt like I had wandered into a Terry Gilliam (or perhaps Franz Kafka) film.