Me gustaría escribir esta entrada en español ya que tengo varias cosas que decir al respecto y quiero darme a entender completamente. Hace ya casi un par de meses la contingencia por el COVID-19 llegó a México. Esta situación nos ha obligado a encerrarnos y seguir prácticas de seguridad para evitar ser contagiados o propagar …
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DEADLINE, chapter 12. How deep do metrics delve?
This chapter has another of those moments in which something or someone is introduced as mostly irrelevant, but turn out to be a big deal in our reality. It happened before with the introduction of the NNL (Bill Gates) and now it happened with a ’charming small company’ that turned out to be none other …
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DEADLINE, chapter 11. This situation we ought to leaven.
The plot of the book thickened in this chapter: Mr. T was having a great morning until Waldo came and told him that the NNL had to go to the US and put someone else in charge. “Allair Belok, Minister of Internal Affairs and Deputy Tyrant” is how he introduced himself. He made a strong …
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DEADLINE, Chapter 10. “Run that simulation again!”
This chapter felt different from all the prior ones, so this entry will probably do too. Mr. Tompkins was staying in Rome for a few days and Johnny Jay, his old boss, wanted him to meet with somebody that also happened to be in Europe at the time. Since Mr. T respected Mr. Jay so …
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DEADLINE, chapters 8 & 9. If nobody notices it will be fine.
At the start of chapter 8, Lahksa and Mr. Tompkins were wondering what the optimal way of performing the management experiments would be, how would they measure which methods are more efficient? They didn’t know how to answer such a question, but they knew who could be able to. Dr. Hector Rizzoli was an important …
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DEADLINE, chapters 6 & 7. It feels like this woman fell from heaven.
Mr. T starts chapter 6 in a tough situation. Not only is he afraid of how many people he’ll have reporting to him, but he also must choose each one of them. At least, eighteen, according to his calculations. How is he supposed to start deciding among 200-ish software managers? Well, Mr. Tompkins uses his …
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DEADLINE, chapters 3, 4 & 5. We actually want to keep them alive!
I just read these three chapters and the story has already gained some more depth. I think that’s cool. Chapter 3 is practically a big setup for how Mr. T is going to be working. We are informed about Morovia’s future plans and its current situation, as well as how Tompkins ought to be operating. …
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So this is a course about project evaluation and management with a very heavy focus on software development/engineering. I don’t know about others, but for me, when I see the word management I always think of two things: time and money. Some people even say that time IS money, so that narrows it down to …
DEADLINE, chapters 1 & 2. “Is diet Dr. Pepper okay for you?”
Imagine having to sing a song about you being laid off and getting kidnapped right after while you’re trying to sleep. That’s what happened to poor Mr. Tompkins, the protagonist of The Deadline: A Novel about Project Management by Tom DeMarco. I had never considered that a novel that teaches about management could exist. I …
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