[dba-Tech] OT:FridayHumor:Anewpetitiontosupportoutdated(?)technologies...

Gustav Brock Gustav at cactus.dk
Mon May 2 11:00:36 CDT 2005


Hi Shamil

Nothing wrong with the small/pilot/POC projects, just make sure to
budget them on their own to be worth your time spent.

About the superiors, surprisingly many are stupid, most mediocre, and a
few stand out.
One alarm for stupid superior is paying to much attention to the
detail; the bright superior will always leave the details to the
specialists.

/gustav 

>>> shamil at users.mns.ru 05/02 5:37 pm >>>
Hi Gustav,

> One classic though - which smells really bad -
> is the small "pilot project
So never ever participate in the "small pilot projects"?
What about Proof Of Concept(POC) kind of projects? - when it's not
even
clear is that possible to implement what client wanted to be
developed?

> "the big job is canceled by the stupid superiors".
They are always stupid? :)
I mean have you seen/met with some smart high level and not that high
level
managers? :)
That was my experience here in Soviet Union and then Russia that there
are
very few good managers.
What a surprise was when I have found that there on the West there are
also
a few good managers! (This is not I who thought most of them not good
enough - these were native people of these Western countries I worked
with
who characterized them this way...)
I have seen two good managers so far and not the high level - what I
have
heard/seen of rather high level managers - they were always "stupid
superiors" :)

The (rhetoric) question is how this World is still running with all
that
"stupid superiors" making the decisions influencing millions of peoples
and
billions of dollars...

...as far as I see here in Russia a capitalistic country is mainly a
chaotically developing  "beast"(what a surprise!?)  - the least state
tries
to "touch" it, the best for its self-development...

... the tragedy of the Soviet Union(if we will not take into account
genocide against its own people in 20ies-50ies of the last century) and
of
nowadays Russia is that state is trying to have too much bureaucratic
control on capitalistic businesses and in the same time lets them to
exploit
to the max their workers and employees. If the state here gave more
freedom
to the businesses and in the same time didn't let them to exploit that
heavy
their workers everything would have developed here much faster...

...yes, I know it's easy to say "stupid superiors" - and it's not that
easy(?) to be these supermanagers...

Best regards,
Shamil
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gustav Brock" <Gustav at cactus.dk>
To: <dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com>
Sent: Monday, May 02, 2005 4:14 PM
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] OT:
FridayHumor:Anewpetitiontosupportoutdated(?)technologies...


> Hi Shamil
>
> It sounds like you have met a lot of these bad guys. And
unfortunately
> you mostly have to learn by experience.
>
> One classic though - which smells really bad - is the small "pilot
> project"; if carried out successfully the big project with the fat
> budget is waiting for you. However, all sorts of things must be
changed
> or polished because "the pilot project must be perfect and approved
> before we launch the big job". You work like a mad only to find out
that
> "the big job is canceled by the stupid superiors".




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