From: "Marin David Condic" <dont.bother.mcondic.auntie.spam@[acm.org>
Subject: Re: SLOC-wars
Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2002 10:35:34 -0400
Date: 2002-04-08T14:35:36+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <a8s9ro$je3$1@nh.pace.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: lwa7wTIAtfI6@eisner.encompasserve.org
"Larry Kilgallen" <Kilgallen@SpamCop.net> wrote in message
news:lwa7wTIAtfI6@eisner.encompasserve.org...
>
> In another setting I have seen similar things happen, and seen the
> project completed according to the calculated schedule rather than
> the manager-fiat schedule.
Once in a "career altering move" I was standing up in front of a bunch of
senior bozos explaining my best attempts to estimate how long it was going
to take to finish up a software project. I had used all the science and some
of the alchemy I had available to me to make the guess significantly better
than pure rectal extraction. I was hit between the eyeballs with a
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..."
Needless to say, "I told you so..." is not a senior bozo's favorite thing to
hear. That's when I learned about the story of Hercules killing the
messenger. :-)
MDC
--
Marin David Condic
Senior Software Engineer
Pace Micro Technology Americas www.pacemicro.com
Enabling the digital revolution
e-Mail: marin.condic@pacemicro.com
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2002-03-28 11:10 AdaGames Enrico A.
2002-03-28 12:29 ` AdaGames Erik Sigra
2002-03-28 14:30 ` AdaGames Preben Randhol
2002-03-28 16:47 ` AdaGames Erik Sigra
2002-03-28 17:55 ` AdaGames Preben Randhol
2002-03-28 18:48 ` AdaGames Erik Sigra
2002-03-28 19:13 ` AdaGames Stephen Leake
2002-03-28 21:58 ` AdaGames Preben Randhol
2002-03-29 7:10 ` AdaGames Bobby D. Bryant
2002-03-29 20:25 ` AdaGames Erik Sigra
2002-03-28 16:00 ` AdaGames chris.danx
2002-03-28 16:27 ` AdaGames Preben Randhol
2002-03-28 20:49 ` AdaGames Kent Paul Dolan
2002-03-28 22:02 ` AdaGames Preben Randhol
2002-04-02 23:11 ` AdaGames Kent Paul Dolan
2002-03-28 18:11 ` AdaGames chris.danx
2002-03-28 19:21 ` AdaGames Ted Dennison
2002-03-29 7:20 ` AdaGames Bobby D. Bryant
2002-03-29 14:28 ` AdaGames Wes Groleau
2002-03-29 14:51 ` AdaGames Ted Dennison
2002-03-28 20:39 ` AdaGames (SDL) Chad R. Meiners
2002-03-28 15:07 ` AdaGames Marin David Condic
2002-03-29 2:14 ` AdaGames Darren New
2002-03-29 14:15 ` AdaGames Marin David Condic
2002-03-30 1:43 ` AdaGames Darren New
2002-04-01 14:23 ` AdaGames Ted Dennison
2002-04-01 16:57 ` AdaGames Darren New
2002-04-01 22:18 ` AdaGames Ted Dennison
2002-04-01 22:42 ` AdaGames Darren New
2002-03-28 15:13 ` AdaGames Ted Dennison
2002-03-29 7:24 ` AdaGames Bobby D. Bryant
2002-03-28 20:55 ` AdaGames Kent Paul Dolan
2002-03-28 22:47 ` AdaGames Randy Brukardt
2002-03-29 14:53 ` AdaGames Ted Dennison
2002-04-02 2:05 ` AdaGames Randy Brukardt
2002-03-29 15:08 ` AdaGames Ted Dennison
2002-03-28 20:59 ` Nethack! (was): AdaGames Kent Paul Dolan
2002-03-29 14:13 ` Ted Dennison
2002-04-01 8:01 ` Juanma Barranquero
2002-04-01 15:04 ` Ted Dennison
2002-04-02 9:27 ` Juanma Barranquero
2002-04-02 14:54 ` Preben Randhol
2002-04-03 6:43 ` Juanma Barranquero
2002-04-02 18:30 ` Ted Dennison
2002-04-03 7:02 ` Juanma Barranquero
2002-04-03 15:06 ` Ted Dennison
2002-04-03 15:31 ` Marin David Condic
2002-04-04 4:40 ` tmoran
2002-04-04 6:14 ` Kent Paul Dolan
2002-04-04 14:16 ` Marin David Condic
2002-04-04 6:10 ` Kent Paul Dolan
2002-04-04 14:26 ` Marin David Condic
2002-04-04 6:56 ` Juanma Barranquero
2002-04-04 16:46 ` Ted Dennison
2002-04-05 7:37 ` Juanma Barranquero
2002-04-03 9:44 ` Preben Randhol
2002-04-03 15:50 ` Ted Dennison
2002-04-03 16:14 ` Marin David Condic
2002-04-04 16:09 ` Wes Groleau
2002-04-04 16:48 ` Marin David Condic
2002-04-04 16:57 ` Mário Amado Alves
2002-04-04 18:07 ` Marin David Condic
2002-04-05 5:14 ` SLOC-wars Kent Paul Dolan
2002-04-05 8:36 ` SLOC-wars Bobby D. Bryant
2002-04-05 14:37 ` SLOC-wars Marin David Condic
2002-04-08 13:35 ` SLOC-wars Ted Dennison
2002-04-08 14:12 ` SLOC-wars Marin David Condic
2002-04-09 14:15 ` SLOC-wars Wes Groleau
2002-04-05 14:25 ` SLOC-wars Marin David Condic
2002-04-07 19:07 ` SLOC-wars John R. Strohm
2002-04-08 14:59 ` SLOC-wars Wes Groleau
2002-04-08 15:13 ` SLOC-wars Marin David Condic
2002-04-05 22:51 ` SLOC-wars John R. Strohm
2002-04-06 22:19 ` SLOC-wars Kent Paul Dolan
2002-04-06 23:17 ` SLOC-wars Larry Kilgallen
2002-04-08 14:35 ` Marin David Condic [this message]
2002-04-09 15:04 ` SLOC-wars Wes Groleau
2002-04-10 13:39 ` SLOC-wars Ted Dennison
2002-04-10 14:54 ` SLOC-wars Marin David Condic
2002-04-07 18:58 ` SLOC-wars John R. Strohm
2002-04-08 15:06 ` SLOC-wars Wes Groleau
2002-04-05 14:43 ` Nethack! (was): AdaGames Ted Dennison
2002-04-05 14:51 ` Marin David Condic
2002-04-05 20:41 ` Metrics! (was) " Wes Groleau
2002-04-06 22:11 ` Kent Paul Dolan
2002-04-08 13:29 ` Ted Dennison
2002-04-03 17:09 ` Bobby D. Bryant
2002-04-04 14:19 ` Ted Dennison
2002-04-03 17:17 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
2002-04-04 16:19 ` Preben Randhol
2002-04-04 16:47 ` SLOC! (was Nethack! (was): AdaGames) Wes Groleau
2002-04-01 18:05 ` Nethack! (was): AdaGames Ralph Moeritz
2002-04-02 9:29 ` Juanma Barranquero
2002-03-29 1:52 ` AdaGames Adrian Hoe
2002-03-29 7:29 ` AdaGames Bobby D. Bryant
2002-04-02 23:43 ` Nethack (again)!: AdaGames Kent Paul Dolan
2002-03-29 18:40 ` AdaGames Pascal Obry
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