Travails of a Technology Consultant #5: Scope Creep

Meet the clueless PM.

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Mar | 8 | 2010

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Today, our fearless hero faces an powerful and common foe: The Clueless Project Manager. His weapon of choice? Scope creep, of course.

Who will prevail in this epic clash of good against evil?

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Monis Iqbal on 03/08/2010 at 9:05 am

I suppose the engineer guessed it right 🙂
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James Standen on 03/08/2010 at 9:41 am

The correct answer is actually

“Agile, and SOA? That ‘s bound to reduce the dev schedule by 10%, AND save us money! Let’s give senior management the good news!”
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philsimon on 03/08/2010 at 12:13 pm

Thanks for the comments, guys.
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