Tuesday, March 23, 2010

A Dilbert Principle . . . does it ever end?

"If I don't understand it, it must be simple."  I remember the Dilbert cartoon it was from.  It’s a classic Dilbert principle.  It plays out over and over in life – ok, mostly work life.  Some vp says “I want you to create a system to track banking deals and generate some reports.  How hard can that be?”  Or, “Just install a telephone system for our company.  How hard can that be?”  Because they’ve never done it – don’t even understand it – they assume it must be simple.  ■  I’m working on a reservation system for a nonprofit and they don’t realize the hours that it’s taken to get the system up and in testing.  And now they don’t understand why making changes should be such a big deal.  It never ends.  Does it?

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  1. You realize that anyone (including leaders at the organization you're creating the form for) can read your blog, right?

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