psuedo-moblogging.

well – 360 won’t take this email from my blackberry, so i emailed myself during class to try and stay awake. this is what i could have sent directly if i could enable moblogging. this scrum class was worse than traffic school…

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Spoonfeeding. People seem to love it. I’m in training for project management and so many people seem concerned with the “by the book” answers to trivial questions when the by the book answer has very little chance of helping them.

But it does provide an alibi. A fall guy. “But I did it by the book”. And that’s the safe answer. Instead of “I thought this would work”. Avoid the thinking seems to be the goal. Avoid the spirit of what people are trying to say and focus on the literal.

Disappoints me. Its not everyone. But it seems to be the majority. How do you get raised that way? Or maybe more importantly with a kid on the way, how do you get raised to appreciate the spirit?

Is it problem solving skills? Just a bunch of a-ha insight books by gardener? Or self confidence? What’s the balance between a maverick and an innovator?

Anyway, scrum’s good an all, but no process compensates will for a lack of skill or motivation. And that seems to be the reason for failed projects. You’ll hear lots of other reasons. But I’m stubborn enough to think that properly skiled and motivated people will succeed. But can be destroyed by the insertion of a few bad apples. Apprentice – as people switch teams they become “losers”. Not quite the same, but similar. Motivated, skilled people will find a way. They will get around obstacles and create solutions, instead of pointing at a book of reciepes and saying “but I did everything it said”.

Itd be nice if that was enough. If there always was an instruction manual to follow and the manual had no errata and was in the appropriate language. But it aint.

And lunch break is only 30 minutes. I think that’s really what’s got me ticked.