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Boing Boing: What’s on your “To Don’t” list?

By ⋅ September 11, 2004 ⋅ Post a comment

Re: Boing Boing: What’s on your “To Don’t” list? I spent another in a long series of meetings with folks at the office yesterday, talking about this very concept. It’s a pretty strong trait with technology-oriented folks, the idea that “because I can fix / address / change / do something with technology, I should”. [...]

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End-around the Prioritization Process

By ⋅ August 14, 2004 ⋅ Post a comment

It took a little time, but we have been successful in getting a key internal group to understand the concepts of prioritizing system / programming requests, and the cost / benefit of doing anything. Finance folks quickly grasp the cost-applied-against-benefit and the total budget; engineers understand that programming requests can and should have effort estimates [...]

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