nosuchreality
Well-known member
There's an ugly balance between what they need and what they think they want particularly with tech.
Often, what they've convinced themselves they want is completely in the way of what they need. I remember having a discussion with a manager about their large project work tracking software. His requirement and most of the other managers with him were insistent on the tool preventing the employee from marking a task or deliverable complete before it's due time. Not before any predecessor tasks were done, which is obvious, but literally before the schedule said it needed to be done.
The reason was really simple. they felt the employees would just go in and mark the tasks complete before they were actually complete. I repeatedly talked with them about that being a management issue that needed to be addressed with the employees. When that failed, I found a way to kill the project as they didn't need anything more than a task list.
Often, what they've convinced themselves they want is completely in the way of what they need. I remember having a discussion with a manager about their large project work tracking software. His requirement and most of the other managers with him were insistent on the tool preventing the employee from marking a task or deliverable complete before it's due time. Not before any predecessor tasks were done, which is obvious, but literally before the schedule said it needed to be done.
The reason was really simple. they felt the employees would just go in and mark the tasks complete before they were actually complete. I repeatedly talked with them about that being a management issue that needed to be addressed with the employees. When that failed, I found a way to kill the project as they didn't need anything more than a task list.