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1.0 A PM wasteland posted by jniblack on October 29, 2009

Heavy, HEAVY, HEEEAAAAVY Project Management approach.

Did I mention the PM approach was very heavy. Heavy as in...
-completely disregard any technical point of view (the PM's already know everything)
-always try to short the estimate by at least a factor of 20 (otherwise the PM's wouldn't have problems to solve)
-consistently deny that there aren't any technical challenges, only expectation misalignment (again...if everything went smoothly, why would you need a PM)
-remember the PM to developer ratio is never less than 3-to-5 (yep... 'we simply have to have a PM to manage the other PM')

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