The Admiral’s Pipe

Merill Fernando's Web Log — Fri, 13 May 2005 08:44:33 GMT

re: The Admiral’s Pipe

Prakash Sachania — Fri, 13 May 2005 13:14:12 GMT

It is very interesting because a programmer under me was caught one day saying "Oh that bug, I thought of the other". Since then we always joke with him about planting bugs in the code.

re: The Admiral’s Pipe

C.P. — Fri, 13 May 2005 16:08:01 GMT

We've done a fair amount of that around here...

There is this manager, whom I'll call LR and she's not satisfied with anything unless she's had a major hand in mucking it up to suit her own needs. And she's a micromanager.

What we've found is if we leave the UI eye-candy (naming of the buttons, wording of the error messages, arrangement of the widgets) in a complete shambles she'll fixate on that. We've managed to tackle *major* design problems -- finding and fixing them on our own -- by keeping her pre-occupied with doily-arranging and picture-straightening tasks.

Management from below is an art form all its own.

re: The Admiral’s Pipe

Sean Chase — Fri, 13 May 2005 18:30:53 GMT

LOL - that's hilarious! Especially the "BTW" comment.

re: The Admiral’s Pipe

jasonz — Fri, 13 May 2005 23:28:28 GMT

>> BTW, if any of *my* management is reading this, rest assured that this has nothing to do with the executive review deck we are putting together today. ;-)

See now you just want me to keep digging further :)

re: The Admiral’s Pipe

Milan Negovan — Mon, 16 May 2005 16:56:36 GMT

There's another Russian military joke that can go with that:

--What is it? Dirt?? What does THAT mean to you?

--That a pig will always find dirt, sir?

re: The Admiral’s Pipe

Rusty — Tue, 17 May 2005 17:19:42 GMT

In my previous post as a graphic designer, I took great pride in my "art". I found that clients always had to make their mark but it offended me, after all, am i not the artist they hired? So I'd leave a big red, ugly, obnoxious blip somewhere in the illustration so they would say, "oh, take that out." Today, I often will use an obnoxious bold, red font in the middle of a page to keep focus on something trivial. Management needs to manage sometimes, even if they don't

re: The Admiral’s Pipe

ML — Mon, 23 May 2005 16:12:34 GMT

What was the guy's rank in the sub?

Building Consensus

Brad Abrams — Sun, 24 Dec 2006 04:39:36 GMT

One of the core skills of a Program Manager is to build consensus. Microsoft (like many knowledge-worker

Building Consensus

ASP.NET Team Blogs — Sat, 13 Jan 2007 12:44:56 GMT

One of the core skills of a Program Manager is to build consensus. Microsoft (like many knowledge-worker