--Originally published at TI2011 – Roger's Rad Records
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Mediation is simpler than negotiation
--Originally published at TI2011 – Press enter to continue…
All people have negotiated at least once in our lives, from simple negotiations like trying to get a better bargain. Even in these simple negotiations are hard, trying to persuade the other person to agree to our demands is difficult, even impossible. "negotiations" by hectorhannibal https://flickr.com/photos/hectorhannibal/3121816753 is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND Negotiation involves a discussion … Continue reading Mediation is simpler than negotiation
I am rich
--Originally published at Blog Oliver
In this chapter we finally see some of the projects finishing and before the imposible deadline imposed by Minister Belok. NNL was back and he asked Webster to see him with some urgency. Webster was a little nervous this could mean good or bad news. In the end it was a grateful surprise to Webster. Morovia was going public and the starting price for a share would be around 14 and 22 dollars. In the beginning Webster wasnt surprise until NNL remember him about the shares he earned when he signed for the job. So Webster is now rich. NNL asked him if he wants to keep working in his job, because they had to renovate the contract because of politics. After thinking a little bit Webster declines the job and he points a person to be his succesor.
We learned that NNL name is Bill maybe related to Bill Gates the owner of Microsoft and xbox. He talks with Webster about finding a new country, maybe the United States, He thanked about Bulgaria, but someone has already bought it.
In the end of the chapter Minister Belok calls Webster by phone. He want to rent most of the building were Webster staff is working and move them to a smaller space. Minister Belok wants adopt a new business strategy called Lean and Mean, this formula is developed in failing companies and goes the opposite direction of Prosperous and Caring. So Webster hangs up, this is the first time we see him facing Minister Belok.
We can see Webster changing and learning about his experiences in Morovia and this chapter is a reflect of that. We see him more self-confident and with more guts.
New NNL
--Originally published at Blog Oliver
This is the last chapter of the book, in the end everything works well for Webster. Finally its time to leave Morovia. He managed to finish a few projects and the others are in the right track. Everything is set to his successor.
After a big party we se Webster in his room. He was thinking about his journal until someone knocked at the door. Alonso Davici one of the managers was working with the press and he wanted to interview Webster. Morovia was going to publish a new Journal called Aidrivoli Software Magazine and they wanted to feature Webster in the first issue. After a few questions Alonso asks Webster if he wrote anything related to what he had learned, this would help so much with the journal. After looking at his journal Webster decides to give ti to Alonso, this surprised me a lot because Lahksa gave him than journal and it represented all what he had faced and learned during his time in Morovia.
The next day before getting on the plane he was thinking about Lahksa he hadnt seen her for a while. She didnt show up to say goodbye. After a few hours he arrives to Bulgary. And Someone bought the country just like Morovia, they also had a NNL called BNNL. A car arrives and takes Webster to see the National Leader. After he arrives Lahksa surprises him. And we learn that Webster is the new BNNL his team and lahksa gather all the money and shares they had and they bought Bulgaria. Webster also propose marriage to her.
Who knows what new adventures will face Webster.
She is back
--Originally published at Blog Oliver
In this two chapters we meet a new character, Mr. Winnipeg who is a famous writer who has a lot of books under his name. He ended up in Morovia the same way as Webtster. Lahksa puts something in his drink and he woke up in an airplane landing in Morovia. Mr Winnipeg helps Webster in two huge problems. The first problem is Webster angry manager in on of his projects. He solves the problem in a strange way. He demotes the manager and offers him to work in a different area. In the beginning I didnt understand this, but then I realize he was scared and I discovered this not because I read it but because I have been in that same position. Fighting to finish a product and being afraid of letting down your team, the guy in charge of all the project and most important yourself, this is pretty scary. So we tend to hide this emotions with anger, because anger is acceptable in a working environment.
The other problem Mr Winnipeg helps to solve is problems with long meeting where people dont get to an agreement and lose time sitting in a place where they are not needed. So he comes with a series of rules and standards in order to boost the efficiency of the meeting for example having an agenda and jus asking the essential personal to assist to those meetings.
In the next chapter wee se Lahksa returning from his long trip with NNL. She is one of my favorite characters so I really liked seeing she come back and being part of the main history again. And she helps Webster with the biggest problem he has faced in all the book, Minister Belok. Who will be in the United States for about Continue reading "She is back"
A Deadline’s Deadline
--Originally published at TI2011 – The Broken Wallflower
Before reading
Guys I hope you are so proud as I am, it has been quite a journey up here, I’m pretty sure we all have been through things, some of us harder than others but the feeling is the same, I want you for a second, to clear your mind and tell yourselves that you are so proud of youselves, you should be, all the things that you have done are quite admirable, so you do deserve some applauses. Now lets finish this up, yep we are on the final chapter, which means that this journey is about to end, but I am pretty sure you will have plenty of adventures more to be part of, so by now lets finish this, let see how does things end up for our beloved Mr T.
Final Chapter
This time I am not goin to give a wide explanation of the book, I am just telling you what I think you guys want. For the first part of the book Mr T is dreaming, dreaming with a Genie who actually can tell him the future, and of course Mr T wants to know about the future of those who helped him through all the book
- Belinda: She will just become an U.S. Senator fiom the State of California
- Mr B: A special assistant in the White House, and then to the Federal Prison at Danbury
- Airline project: It will be finished, it wil have some trouble but no crashes
- Markov: He became the Minister of Internal Affairs
Which means that the future of everyone who helped him was actually set up, just one was missing Lahska, the time to leave Morovia had come, he could not say goodbye to his old girl friend, she was the first reason why Mr
Deadline 22
--Originally published at TI2011 – The Broken Wallflower
Before reading
Well if you got this far let me congratulate you, it has been a long road, this book has been our partner for a while now, we could have read it in one night, but whats the point of that, right? but let me tell you something, we are not finished yet, almost but not done, last time we actually got what we aere looking for, we got Lahska, we got rid of Mr B and now everything seems to be A O K, lets see if the book has for us some other trouble or are we going to deliver our projects now.
Chapter 22
Hey yall looks like we did it, all the effort and sweat and blood what we gave on all the projects finally seems to be blooming , because and pay attention to what I am going to say
- On May 24 QuickerStill -B delivered
- On May 29 QuickerStill -C delivered
- On May 30 PMill-C delivered
You guys know what this means right? Yup, not only we actually finished two of the six projects but we did it just before that Mr B deadly deadline, this means that maybe Mr B’s deadline was not that stupid at the end of the day, at least not for the small projects. Wait a minute, I am receiving another great new, remember that old morovian leader that suddendly left morovia and left Mr B as the new leader, well seems like he is back and he is happy and healthy at all, not Mr B, I am talking about the NNL.
Everyone was happy to see the NNL again, everyone even our beloved Mr T, when they finally get to meet face to face the NNL could not handle his hapiness, little did Mr T knew
Deadline 20 & 21
--Originally published at TI2011 – The Broken Wallflower
Before reading
It is almost the end of the book and I am really exited about it, I will not give you any spoiler about which is the last chapter so you’ll have to read every single post I post, evil? Maybe, do I do it on purpose? Of course, in this journey we are going together, so if I am not finished neither you are, anyways focus on the book, the last time the book kept flat, nothing exciting and nothing usefull, not a new school lesson so a little meh, not bad and not good, lets see if this thing gets better, I really hope it does.
Chapter 20
One more we get to know from a character that we thought that it was going to be really important to the story but suddendly dissapeared from one day to another, yup you guys know who am I talking about, none other than our dear Lahska, she left a message to Mr T about sending a friend of hers to meet at Morovia, none other than another strange men who apparently got kidnapped and sent to morovia than none nother than that evil disappearing woman we missed.
That strange mas was calles Harry, apparently he was someone really famous, someone who has been writing about everything in the field, an expertise who knos everything what is needed to do things right, and in that moment that was exactly what Mr T wanted. Remember that angry manager from a few chapters before well seems like no one could got rid of him, so our hero told Harry about it, and a few moments later that problem was no longer a problem, that manager got demoted, the thing that was happening with this manager is that he only wanted to rest,
Deadline 19
--Originally published at TI2011 – The Broken Wallflower
Before reading
In the last chapters we dicussed about the repercutions about conflicts, not only in business, but in every field, and what is the proper way to try to treat those wounds, the trick here is to aply the solution to where it hurts, and allways try to meditate before trying to confrot it directly, just a wise advice from someone that have been into a lot of conflict, so for these chapters I am really hopping for something really juicy and story related, we are almost close to the deadline of the projects and the end of the book so I want juicy things.
Chapter 19
Of course when troubles came in a book they need to be more toubles, so the hero, in this case Mr T gets to decide the best option, not for him but for all the ones who are related to the problem and in this case, those who are afected are none others that the A team projects, seems like after some evaluation all the teams were doing really good, but the team A, the ones who are in charge of Mr B projects, of course this was something that Mr T did not expect to happend at all, he just wanted everyone to develope something worth use, not wanted to let team A go worst and dow.
The main problem here was the strategy that the A team managers were running, aparently the designning that they were doing was nothing useful for the project at all, and the real reason why this was happening is that actually these design was meant to be made by a small group of people, but in A team the group is really large, and in something so important and crucial like the design document we
Ideal staffing curve
--Originally published at TI2011 – DVant Blog
Design requirements are a valuable component in the process of software development. When I started working as a web developer, I thought that the code was supposed to be made at the same time of the design. Adding new features and colors on the go, and fixing issues as the project developed. But this technique... Continue Reading →
