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This question would have been better asked in one of the forums, so as to prevent the answer from getting lost. 
/ravi
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My (immediate) Boss is so upset the bigger directors don't plan the resources well but crush the deadlines, it's like giving a broomstick to fight a war where Saber & Blaster guns are used. He was mad. He was furious and yelling.
I told him, okay listen boss, This is what the management could give, And with that, this is what we could deliver. So why we have to be upset about it?
Boss: I am not Upset. I am NOT Upset. I AM NOT UPSET. I'm just telling YOU what the HECK is happening.
Me: ... beep .. beep. 
haha he needs some rest.
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My boss be like: We've been asked to develop a faster-the-light ship by the end of the year.
Me: That's impossible, push back.
He: We have to at least show progress.
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Build two prototype ships.
Make one really heavy, and fit it with a V8 outboard.
Fit the other with a sail and a flashlight.
Arrange a three week testing in a lake in a remote country, conveniently near a 5 star hotel.
See which crosses the lake first.
See? Progress!
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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You may be onto something.
Done right, I would actually wind up with an art car to take to Burning Man at my employer's expense.
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Just take him to Burning Man, make sure he gets LOTS of the pills floating around, and he will recognize the mission as accomplished! 
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Being told that it is impossible is progress. You just established viability, which apperently was unknown.
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"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Sadly so, but "showing progress" definitely means we accepted the assignment.
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Since you did not participate in the decision, he accepted the assigment.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Faster than light => can travel back in time => We have all the time in the world.
Strategy: The next 10 years are allocated to discuss the colors of the seats. The color scheme will then be further developed from there, followed by any technical matters that needs to be sorted out. 10 years agile sprints seems reasonable, so details and release estimates will come later.
Current sprint progress: Pink with purple polka dots and bright green stars has been identified as a potential candidate for initial tentative elimination shortlisting - with the option to reevaluate the eliminations once the discussion of the color of the floor is picked up in a later sprint. If we choose to do so, we will create a new story to reselect the color and put that in a later sprint.
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The Vulcan Science Directorate has determined that Time Travel is not possible.
You mustn't forget the lemon-soaked napkins.
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IMHO, your boss has twofold responsibilities, among others:
- To represent his immediate top management and their objectives, plans to you and team.
- To represent you and your team, along with the difficulties you face in execution, to his immediate top management.
So, he has to convince his management about the feasibility of their plans, from the execution-team standpoint, and make them revise their plans accordingly.
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lol everything is clearly defined on everybody's KRA objectives.
It's just matter of following it
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Amarnath S wrote: IMHO, your boss has twofold responsibilities, among others:
- Taking the heat from upper management to avoid the cats devs from getting upset.
- Getting blamed for every little thing that the devs think should be better.
At least, sometimes looks that way to me.
Amarnath S wrote: and make them revise their plans accordingly.
Often you can't revise what you promised a client.
Imagine hiring a contractor to build a house. Contractor runs into problems by going over budget due to cement-prices suddenly rising and having some workers getting unexepectedly sick. You planned to move into that house on the promised due-date and have quit your lease based on that promise.
Software is no different. The entrepeneur is there to take the risc (and profit). The rest is just being paid to do what is in their contract.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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In other words...
the boss of the morons
and
the moron of the bosses
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Why not be a gentleman and step up to the task at hand: offer to euthanize him.
If he says no - things aren't that bad, after all; and if he says yes - they won't be for long.
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Nand32 wrote: My (immediate) Boss is so upset
Who'd have guessed? So, I take it you didn't deactivate the nukes? My apologies to your boss.
It may be hard, but it is in everyones interest; if you must fail, fail early. And now you can at least talk about how to improve, instead of watching a train wreck in slow motion.
Nand32 wrote: I AM NOT UPSET.
Yup, very human. Also shows that it is important to him, dammit!
I did the same; I AM CALM, YOU HEAR ME  - which sounds weird in your ears if you hear yourself shout it. Makes you even more angry because you just made it harder for yourself to convince someone that you are, indeed, calm and rational
They'll roast him until he too turns that table around. Upper management may see it as mutiny, sales can't sell "flexible" deadlines. And how do you place a bid for a project, if the budget and manhours suddenly start moving under your feet? (Easy answer; risc is for the entrepeneur, not the employee)
You're all in the same boat; crew, captain, investors. If the ship don't sail, all loose. Targets need to be realistic and morale high. Buy him a pirate flag and a good bottle of rum 
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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dont make his upset to your problem. He is some "intermediate" ...
I guess he wont last for long
Press F1 for help or google it.
Greetings from Germany
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Since the complexity of web pages increases with time, with different types of dynamical content, web pages take more and more time to load. I find it very disturbing that design elements are jumping around while the page is being loaded. This came recently to such an extent that by loading some pages, you have to wait 3 seconds until everything is stable enough that you can simply click on a link without it having jumped around three times and you end up clicking on something else.
And do not tell me to buy faster internet, I do have fast internet already - Plus I think the browsers need to proceed with the rendering anyway.
Ain't nobody interested in improving user experience on web pages anymore ? Add this to the cookie/newsletter/subscription/notofications bullshit coming up every time you load a page... Browsing the internet is painful. 
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The problem is that each page uses half a dozen frameworks, which depend underlying stuff etc., so each page not only takes a long time to download but also takes a long time to render. These complex frameworks may make things simpler (?) for the developer, but they are a failure at the User Experience level.
Even worse - every developer has their own idea of control positioning, shapes, etc. What happened to the CUA that was supposed to make it easier to use new programs?
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Daniel Pfeffer wrote: every developer has their own idea of control positioning, shapes, etc.
Then that developer has never read the Ux Guidelines for WinForms.
It has some pretty well-argumented advice, with little room for "creativity". Controls are supposed to behave in a certain predictable way. Can't remember a WinForm app where I had to scroll through a combobox filled with years simply to give a date. Lots of scrolling, and if the mouse is of a bit, the entire screen scrolls.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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This! If you're not in the right spot you're not sure what you're scrolling anymore.
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Rage wrote: Plus I think the browsers need to proceed with the rendering anyway.
..and load/execute a whole lot of JavaScript-"frameworks" and "libraries".
Rage wrote: Ain't nobody interested in improving user experience on web pages anymore ?
Designers, managers and marketing people think that the user-experience is "how they experience it". So, reading a page has to be an experience.
As a programmer, I think of it in terms of usability and accesability. Does your site allow for high-contrast color schemes if set in Windows? Most webpages don't, and think that it is more important that their own colors are used.
I especially like the pages that throw away all the info you entered after 15 minutes.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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