Targets and Bullets
By Paul Epps
Our status report template includes the following section:
Scheduled Items Not Completed:
- List items/targets missed in this reporting period as bullets.
I just like the juxtaposition of “targets missed” and “bullets.”
"We missed some targets but we still have bullets! Wait till next week!"
Thus spoke The Programmer.
A work of historical fiction, mainly concerned with the decline and fall of a once-noble profession.
Archive:
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Profiles
in Management
The Liar
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Requirements
Are Boring
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Picasso
vs. the PMBOK
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We
Don't Have the Money, So We Have to
Think
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Targets and
Bullets
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High-Tech
Turnaround
The job market has turned around, if by "turned around" you mean "continued to disintegrate, but at a slower pace."
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Setting
Expectations
Medical professionals are very good at this. Software professionals are not.
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Fetch!
How many times have you seen someone pretend to throw a ball to a dog, then laugh when the dog tries to chase it anyway?
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10
Best Questions to Ask at the End of a
Talk When You Absolutely Have To
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Three
Experts Renounce the Waterfall
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More . . .
Fellow Travelers:
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EppsNet:
Notes from the Golden Orange
Online journal based in Orange County, CA. Hilarious anecdotes tempered by the icy chill of certain death.
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Hostile
Witness
Notes, essays, japes, taunts and screeds. Occasional literary references.
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