Re: Trace Analyzer - Wow
- From: Robyn <robyn.sands@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: nigel.cl.thomas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2009 11:14:01 -0500
Nigel,
Yes, this is the same daughter. She's not managing the geeks, just working
with them, but she is hoping to get the genius admin position sometime
soon. It's funny that a college student gets the earned respect concept and
latency hiding when so few project managers do. She was also disturbed by
her stores attempts to clean up the geeks appearance - she realizes that the
oddness of the people working there is part of the mystique of Apple and
doesn't want to see it changed.
One of the biggest fallacies of project management is the idea that a good
project manager can manage any kind of project. Doubt I can convince her to
go into IT project management though. She plans to go for a Masters in
librarian-ism at some college in Seattle next. Apparently those that are
smart enough to recognize the challenges of managing geeks are also smart
enough to know they don't want the job. :)
cheers ... Robyn
On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 10:22 AM, Nigel Thomas <
nigel.cl.thomas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Robyn
>
> Just read your post about your daughter managing geeks at the Apple
> store<http://adhdocddba.blogspot.com/2009/09/managing-geeks.html>5 mins ago,
> then this. Same daughter or not? Can you get her / them into IT
> project/programme management of some description - most PMs I ever worked
> with have no idea about either earned respect or latency hiding (let alone
> set theory or statistics - or management come to that), and would benefit
> greatly from it (imho).
>
> :-)
>
> Regards Nigel
>
> 2009/11/26 Robyn <robyn.sands@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> And it seems that scheduling to minimize latency may be a genetic trait ...
>>
>> My daughter is home for Thanksgiving. I asked her to do something, and
>> her answer was "Sure but let me put this in the oven first. I like to start
>> the thing I have to wait for before I do something else."
>>
>> When I told her she was practicing latency hiding, she thought that was
>> funny, but launched into a complaint about the ordering of the recipes a few
>> minutes later, as in: "Why do they tell you to grease the pans first, when
>> there's going to be a bunch of times where you have to wait a few minutes
>> anyway and you could do it then?"
>>
>> Plus she started her laundry before any of this .... she's better at
>> latency hiding than I am. Too bad she's a Poly Sci major ...
>>
>> too funny :)
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 12:03 AM, Cary Millsap <cary.millsap@xxxxxxxxxxxx
>> > wrote:
>>
>>> :-) Awesome.
>>>
>>> Latency hiding in the spirit of
>>> http://carymillsap.blogspot.com/search?q=latency+hiding.
>>>
>>>
>>> Cary Millsap
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 10:19 PM, <troach@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Speaking of wait time. I am in Florida for the thanksgiving holiday and
>>>> I went to eat at a hole in the wall place. On the wall it said "burger wait
>>>> time: 1 1/2 beers" :).
>>>>
>>>> Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry
>>>> ------------------------------
>>>>
>>>>
>> --
>> I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up
>> where I needed to be.
>> Douglas Adams
>>
>
>
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