When faced with a problem, a strategy we accuse
PointyHairedBoss(s) of following:
Examples of Somethings: hire more coders
(when the project is in time trouble), rewrite everything in java,
hold a workshop, avoid eye contact with the customer. Add Somethings
you've seen below, it beats banging your head on the wall.
- make it harder to delete stuff from wiki yes! in fact we should make it much more socially acceptable - has anybody bothered to comment yet on RefactorFasterDeleteMore?
- cancel all project-related travel or
- let's fly everyone to Phoenix for a week
- let's waste our lives writing stupid documentation!
- "Everyone stop working! We need to have a bunch of really long time-consuming meetings about our lack of adequate progress." (Actually, this can be a very healthy response, if done properly.)
- "Work smarter, not harder," words to live by from the second most clueless manager I have ever worked for
This also happens in democracies: There ought to be a law.