Toronto Project Manager – Paul Henman CSM

Equally pointless is trying to predict what task a particular person will be working on twelve months from now, at precisely 3pm.

Today’s Dilbert is yet another that hits too close to home:

It seems that this blog is largely becoming a place where I just re-post Dilbert cartoons, but that’s not my aim … however, Scott Adams is just so spot on sometimes!

I’ve been in the situation (as I’m sure most PMs have) where the team says there’s just not enough time to get everything done, so I try to explain to the Product Owner that we need to cut (i.e. postpone) some functionality or we can’t deliver, only to be told “I need it all or there’s no point in delivering it”. (more…)

[source: Dilbert, 18 July 2009]

Unfortunately I’ve worked at places with this philosophy:

[source: Dilbert, 22 June 2009]