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Project Management Humor!
Top 10 Reasons NOT to Use Project Management
(With apologies to David Letterman)
10. Our customers really love us, so they don't care if our products are late and don't work.
9. Organizing to manage projects isn't compatible with our culture, and the last thing we need around this place is change.
8. All our projects are easy, and they don't have cost, schedule, and technical risks anyway.
7. We aren't smart enough to implement project management without stifling creativity and offending our technical geniuses.
6. We might have to understand our customers' requirements and document a lot of stuff, and that is such a bother.
5. Project management requires integrity and courage, so they would have to pay me extra.
4. Our bosses won't provide the support needed for project management; they want us to get better results through magic.
3. We'd have to apply project management blindly to all projects regardless of size and complexity, and that would be stupid.
2. I know there is a well-developed project management body of knowledge, but I can't find it under this mess on my desk.
1. We figure it's more profitable to have 50% overruns than to spend 10% on project management to fix them.
© Copyright 1996, Jim Chapman. Reprinted by Permission.
(You have permission to reprint the above including the copyright notice and distribute it without charge.)
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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I prefer the quote by Sir John Harvey-Jones.
Planning is an unnatural process; it is much more fun to do something.
The nicest thing about not planning is that failure comes as a complete
surprise, rather than being preceded by a period of worry and depression.
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I just noticed that downvoting is disabled. 
10 points without humor. Or perhaps you care to explain the "joke"?
Bastard Programmer from Hell
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Always the party pooper, Eddy. A - l - w - a - y -s.
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I actually worked at a place where the directors / whatever got a bonus depending on the size of the project.
I was naive enough (not knowing of that perk) to suggest multiple deliverables that the user could use sooner.
He F'd me off in an open office environment.
That same guy made me expand reports by changing the layout because he did not understand / know you could change the fonts on laser printers to something smaller.
"Before entering on an understanding, I have meditated for a long time, and have foreseen what might happen. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or to do in a circumstance unexpected by other people; it is reflection, it is meditation." - Napoleon I
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CAVS - Dancin Tony In Cuba 1959[^]
I found this one while Spotify was shuffling.
Never heard of them before.
Pretty funky, turns out their entire album is just percussion.
Couldn't find much about them, but looking further I found out this is a band by Michael Cavanagh (I'm guessing CAVS is short for Cavanagh), drummer of King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard.
Where King Gizzard is mainly psychedelic/stoner rock, CAVS is pretty funky percussion.
From Australia.
Sound of the week! 
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I like it! 
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Nice one!
Played this during cooking today
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My daughter put me onto King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - nonagon infinity[^].
Interesting concept, the end of each song leads into the start of the next one, and the end of the last song goes straight into the start of the first song.
// TODO: Insert something here Top ten reasons why I'm lazy
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Nice one.
A friend of mine is into King Gizzard, so I know them a bit.
I'm not a fan, but this one is nice.
yacCarsten wrote: the end of each song leads into the start of the next one
I've heard that before.
For example, Meshuggah's Catch 33 has the same.
It's basically a single song split up into smaller sections.
yacCarsten wrote: and the end of the last song goes straight into the start of the first song
Now that's cool! 
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I read rnbergrens post below on PowerBI and wondered what alternatives there are?
We have a couple of legacy application at my company that creates reports using SSRS.
We need a new application that uses SSAS for the data, and the obvious choice for our management is PowerBI.
I have never worked with it, so my personal choice would be Devexpress just because of impressive support.
But what else is around? And why would you recommend it.
BTW, is SSRS still a viable choice?
And no, Crystal Reports is NOT a choice.
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I have worked in Tableau, SSRS, PowerBI etc...
SSRS would be my personal first choice and it is still viable as far as I am concerned. unfortunately in my current job my employer has mandated the use of PowerBI which would be my last choice.
Tableau is a solid choice but is pretty expensive.
There are others. I have played with quite a few. These are the ones that stand out the most to me.
PS I have been working in PowerBI for about 6 months now. I have had nothing but headaches for the simplest things. Like Data refreshing automatically. That was a huge pain. And the afore mentioned Hotkeys not working and getting on my nerves yesterday. Also, the lack of programmability to the interface(Powerbi, Visual Studio, Object model etc.. I would take anything at this point)
PPS I have 4 on going reports/dashboards in production from production data in PowerBI so I am making it work. It is just ugly.
PPPS I hate it when management makes a decision upon high about which tool to use. You don't tell your mechanic which tool to use. Don't tell your staff. Tell them what you want and let them make the decisions on best tools.
To err is human to really elephant it up you need a computer
modified 20-May-22 9:55am.
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Quote: PPPS
Hmmmm. It would appear that we have another peon who doesn’t know his place!
Send out the four horsemen of the HRpocalypse!!!!
If you can't laugh at yourself - ask me and I will do it for you.
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Jörgen Andersson wrote: my personal choice would be Devexpress just because of impressive support.
I don't think Power BI and DevExpress are interchangeable.
I don't know DevExpress reporting very well, but as I understood it offers a designer to create reports, like Crystal Reports, but done right.
With Power BI you create dashboards with real-time data.
Crystal Reports and DevExpress create reports and documents that can be used in your software, like invoices.
Again, I could be wrong, but I haven't heard of anyone switching the one for the other and I know companies use both tools side by side.
Jörgen Andersson wrote: And no, Crystal Reports is NOT a choice.
This goes without saying 
Unfortunately, I still have a client who's using it 
Jörgen Andersson wrote: PowerBI and wondered what alternatives there are?
To answer your question, sort of...
A customer of mine is using Qlik | Analytics & Data Integration Platform[^] , and as far as I know they're happy about it.
I haven't used or seen it though, so I can't say what it's like.
I've seen Tableau[^] mentioned in this thread, which is also one of the bigger and more well-known alternatives.
Again, can't say if it's good.
After all, Crystal Reports is probably the most well-known reporting tool and still much used, and probably the worst pile of crap I've ever used
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Well, Devexpress has both a Dashboard Server and a programming interface. But I have only used the latter.
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What you really need is 10,000 nuns and orphans.
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Be sure what you actually are looking for. A reporting tool or a powerful, interactive business intelligence tool. As Sander said they are not the same. Stick with SSRS for static and scheduled reports (I applaud your disgust of Crystal) and look for a BI suite.
The problem we had with MS offering was that it tied you into their eco system, you end up purchasing a number of different servers to drive the tolls.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity -
RAH
I'm old. I know stuff - JSOP
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Good point.
I don't really believe our users are able to use interactive tools. They want ready made reports.
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One thing to consider is, who will be creating the reports in the long run. If the reports will always be created by developers, then choosing a good, programmable reporting tool, like DevExpress, would be a good choice.
However, if you plan to create an environment where also users will also be able to create their own reports, then the usability and proper metadata capabilities would be important. In such case why not PowerBI but you also have other options like Qlik, Tableau or even products like Cognos. They each have their pros and cons, depending on the requirements.
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Looks like another vote for Devexpress. 
Also see my response to Mycroft.
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