IT suffers from its own popularity

IT suffers from its own popularity. People go to IT not only because they love it or know how to do it, but because they need money, a reputation and a little bit of power. Because of this, a significant part of decisions are made out of greed, vanity and for the sake of a line in a resume. And an attempt to change priorities in favor of the interests of the project often leads to a conflict. The problem is equally common among both management and engineers, although it manifests itself in each group in its own way

2022-09-09

Some ideas to help you explain to your project manager why things just do not happen by themselves

You can't always get what you want


Result is not something guaranteed, not something you can count on, no matter what. Result is something you can get, if you are lucky and all the conditions are in your favor, and you can focus, and you are prepared to invest some extra effort, if you, despite all the desperate measures, run out of your resource.

I observed that planning is often done without even attempting to check if the goal or its parts are really feasible. The industry seems to be forming this habit of not questioning the task unless problems are too obvious. They pay you for doing something. And that means there's no way back, because some other people have already committed to do it, so now you have to provide a solution to support their commitment.

This way of doing things is not very helpful when it comes to planning, especially if area is not sufficiently familiar.