--Originally published at Blog de Célia
Remember what we learn after 10 chapters of the Deadline Novel: setting super ambitious deadlines doesn’t make you achieve the work more quickly (it only give you more stress), creating bigger team can decrease the productivity in a project…. So now, that you have that in mind, let me explain you the new situation.
It’s been 3 months that Webster live in Morovian, he looks to be used to live there, to have some habits. Then, we learn that NNL was gone to work for some times and during his absence Mr Bolok will replace him.
Webster meet his new chief that decided that everything need to change in the way he is managing the project. First, he changed the deadline (even if officially there wasn’t any, Webster put one). Initially, they had 606 days left before the deadline, Mr Bolok set a 420 days objective and to do so he asked Webster to doble the team worker. Webster tried to negotiate a lot and explain the model relate to the productivity/number of workers in a team, but nothing changed.
Webster learnt how the political aspect (because the choices of Mr Bolok are about politics) of a company can influence all the work done or that will be done. He wrote that Mr Bolok makes pathological politics, that means “that goals of personal power and influence come to override the natural goals of an organization.”.
With his board manager team Webster tried to find solution and they found some to hide the fact that there will still be the same sized team working on each project… but Webster still feel unsafe and depressed after this discussion…
