Hello again! This time the second challenge has surfaced. The concept is the same: I play a song and you try to guess the name of it, but I changed the lyrics to match the best concepts of chapters 15 an 16 of The Deadline, by Tom de Marco. Enjoy it!
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Lyrics:
If you think people under pressure
Will work better but you’re terribly wrong
Overtime will not be your fix
To your whole problem, manager, so listen
Overtime decreases productivity
So you must never apply it
If you don’t believe me
Just ask, Mr T.
On the other side, it may work
Short bursts of pressure may bring good reception
Since it will make your staffto focus more
You have to balance, few is right, but tons not
So in conclusion to chapter 15
Both are popular tools but
The truth is that they don’t work
At aaaaaaaaaall
They just harm mooooore
And next comes a great lesson
That you must remember always
Chapter 16
They say the moods can pass from dude to dude
Imagine your manager’s mad
The mood can be transferred
To all your staff
In a little while
So you must confront angry men
And the fix will be covered next song
But now we’ll talk bout spec sheets
They must have inputs, and outputs, policies
The I/O must be an easy thing but the
Policies must tackle
All events and how they are
handleeeeeed
Ambiguous translates
to conflicts between various stakehooooooolders
Remember you must make your specs clear
People will not tell you to not be seen as weak
That’s it for this episode
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