Comments on: Yes, it is a piece of cake, but …. http://productmanagementtips.com/2008/12/02/productmanagement-scheduling/ Practical software product management tips Wed, 15 Feb 2012 20:10:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Devon Sowell http://productmanagementtips.com/2008/12/02/productmanagement-scheduling/#comment-779 Wed, 10 Dec 2008 01:15:03 +0000 http://gopalshenoy.wordpress.com/?p=481#comment-779 Have you ever noticed that manager that say this “oh, that should be so simple to do that you should have it implemented in a couple of hours”. …can never actually do the task themselves? Nor have any idea how long it should really take?

Here’s another example; I recently had a 5 month contract to help design a complex product. The Engineer I reported to didn’t know his elbow from a 1/4-20 x 1in SHCS. His version of management was to say this to you everyday; “Everything is going OK, right?” Of course, one quickly learned the only answer he heard was Yes. Therefore, everyone always said that to him whether it was true or not!

Devon
http://www.3-ddesignsolutions.com

]]> By: Perry McDowell http://productmanagementtips.com/2008/12/02/productmanagement-scheduling/#comment-778 Tue, 09 Dec 2008 20:21:57 +0000 http://gopalshenoy.wordpress.com/?p=481#comment-778 As a manager, as I give assignments to my programmers, I (jokingly) say, “Anything that I don’t have to do is easy.”

]]> By: Susan Oakes http://productmanagementtips.com/2008/12/02/productmanagement-scheduling/#comment-763 Tue, 02 Dec 2008 22:53:34 +0000 http://gopalshenoy.wordpress.com/?p=481#comment-763 You made some good points and often it comes down to how you manage the expectations of others which is easy to say but sometimes difficult to put into practice.

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