--Originally published at Meeting the Deadline
So, we meet again. I thought I wouldn’t see you here again. Glad you stayed close.
Now that we are all here, we must continue our learning path with exactly the right question: “Where the f*ck is Morovia?”, as Mr. T would’ve said if I was the one writing The Deadline hehe.
Aside from kidding, Mr. T seemed very confused at the beginning of chapter 3 by waking up in a foreign country in the middle of, apparently, nowhere.
Little by little the details of his new endeavor are explained to him by the friendly but honest words of Hoolihan. He is there to manage a huge ton of people, and to help Morovia succeed in the software industry. He’d have everything he’d need, from tools to people.
And yes, money is guaranteed for Mr. T, but most importantly, he’ll enjoy the thrill of the thing and a feeling of achievement (at least that’s what Hoolihan tells him).
Carefully, he accepts the offer, but makes very specific notes about his requirements (yes, my people, this is our first lesson from today):
- In a team, people must be co-located. There’s no productivity when people are scattered.
- The manager requires final word over all schedules. One project can only succeed if the time organization is carefully done.
- When there are too many people for so many projects, a manager can only experiment with the output.
And that’s exactly how he gains his motivation. Morovia has so many available people and just a handful of projects. What could he do with all that extra workers?
The first Project Management Laboratory, a magical place where several projects can be realized under certain conditions in order to study how
