Working Daze by John Zakour and Scott Roberts for October 07, 2023

The Iconic MMM method.

That’s a little too Agile…

And THIS is how Twitter became X!

Reminds me of when HP split into two corporations (HP and HPE = Hewlett-Packard Enterprise) and they wanted a new symbol to represent HPE. After a lot of hype and spending a lot of money, they came up with an empty rectangular box. Many employees said their grade school children could do better.

Turned out, there’s a lot of truth-in-advertising with that symbol…

This is why good designers get a paid a lot. The design part is relatively easy; the problem is dealing with people like this.

Reminds me of the time my boss came in to the hospital where I worked on a very busy Saturday morning and said he was going to help me enter orders into the computer. Honest answer would have been “Please don’t!” because he knew nothing about the process and I would have been working at his speed instead of mine. I couldn’t really say that though. Fortunately after a few minutes he decided his time could be better spent in his office doing manager things. I quite agreed.

This reminds me of the first season of Dilbert where the company wants him to name an unknown product…