From the desk

Scenes every engineering manager has stood in. Three of them have a blank: put your own word in, and take the picture with you. Each one has an essay behind it, for the day it stops being funny.

It says “SSO?”. I have read it four times.
Your one word
The essay: A topic is not a request
I said “roughly 8 weeks”. They have had it engraved.
Your estimate
The essay: An estimate is not a commitment
Good news: we have the date. The plan is expected shortly.
The essay: Pushing back on an unrealistic deadline
I ranked them, as asked. They are all first.
The essay: When everything is a priority
It isn’t a no. It has just been “later” since March.
Since
The essay: Putting a project on hold
We have started ten. I would like to lead with that.
The essay: Ten projects in flight is a queue pretending to be progress
Status: green. Some details are still being finalised.
The essay: RAG status is a judgement

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