From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,41100a78496a4c71 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-04-10 06:39:44 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!postnews1.google.com!not-for-mail From: dennison@telepath.com (Ted Dennison) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: SLOC-wars Date: 10 Apr 2002 06:39:43 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com/ Message-ID: <4519e058.0204100539.55abecac@posting.google.com> References: <0b1a7c596d3d0851f6e35f3e81df82bd.48257@mygate.mailgate.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: 65.115.221.98 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1018445984 25149 127.0.0.1 (10 Apr 2002 13:39:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 10 Apr 2002 13:39:44 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:22315 Date: 2002-04-10T13:39:44+00:00 List-Id: "Marin David Condic" wrote in message news:... > Once in a "career altering move" I was standing up in front of a bunch of At GE we called it "career limiting move", or CLM. CLM was the name of my vollyeball team in the GE league. :-) > two-by-four and informed that this was the "wrong answer". > > My response was to inform my superiors that they should have told me what > the answer was before the meeting so I could have got it on the slide, but > that I could easily take a grease pencil and write down any date they liked > right now if they would be so kind as to tell me what numbers they wanted to > see. I further informed them that when they got done dreaming about the cost > of engineering in Heaven and we shot their schedule straight thru the head & > woke them up, I'd be standing here telling them "I told you so..." My typical reaction to this is to say: "Well then...what funtionality would you like to remove?". I always have my favorite removal candidates handy too, with savings estimate. :-) The best response I ever saw though came from the legendary Gendreaux. He walked up to the whiteboard in front of them all and wrote the following: --- o Bugdet o Quality o Schedule Pick any two --- -- T.E.D. Home - mailto:dennison@telepath.com (Yahoo: Ted_Dennison) Homepage - http://www.telepath.com/dennison/Ted/TED.html