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>So ... I don't wanna see no GANTTs, or PERTs or critical paths or any of
>that stuff, I had enough of that in college and my boss breaks out in a
>rash whenever I bring it up.
I agree. Maybe it's just me, maybe I just never had the right understanding,
but the last time I had to deal with those was about six year ago when I
did a short stint as an industrial engineer. It seemed like those around
me (who had been in their positions for quite some time) were spending all
day preparing nifty charts to -study- the problem, but no actual time
making action decisions or solving the problems.
If the building's on fire, I don't need a PERT to tell me that I need to
call the fire department.
Maybe I was with a group of people that were abusing the system, or maybe
I just didn't get the big picture. But I really had very little use for
those types of tools.
Rick Lippincott
Boston Technology
Wakefield, MA
rjl -at- bostech -dot- com
