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by Michael Cote.
Original Post: links for 2007-11-04 from PeopleOverProcess.com
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“The French department to the German department, the medievalists, Classics people, critical theory people, and the S&M people were all sort of coming in and mingling shoulders in this very small space.”
Being nice & humane can actually work at work. Good luck storming the castle! - Also, more interesting are the comments on not having an IT department and letting employees self-provision.
The people on the ground were very clearly reporting a red project status, our project manager wanted to play it safe so reported yellow status, and his manager was more political yet and reported green status.
“Countless brilliant geeks have driven themselves nuts trying to get corporations or groups to turn away from idiotic decisions, never realizing that the way to get the corporation to stop being stupid is not to prove your point but to wash your hair.”