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 -- Web: http://smsconsulting.spb.ru/shamil_s ----- 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".