I never thought I'd be blogging about work but here goes...
You get to see managers in your lifetime that seem to be quite competitive. Eventually they turn out to worse than you, except that they know a wee bit more than what you know in a specific field.
We have Program Management Officers who seem to be quite qualified, except that they just know that much and that's all they will ever know. No matter how much you teach them or tell them, nothing will change their perception of something.
We had a meeting discussing the ability of Vendor Project Managers to "Publish" their project plans in our portal. Mind you, the first meeting we had regarding this was 3 months ago and we had decided that the Project Owners (i.e. Project Manager from the - our - Company side) should take the plan and publish it, assigning all tasks to the Project Manager so that he can update it.
Now this meeting started off with discussing the drawbacks of having the Vendor Project Managers publish the plan instead of the Project Owner. The debate went on for some time, then all of a sudden, my fav. colleague (NOT), came in the meeting room (although he was not invited), and gave his suggestion, "Why don't we assign all tasks to the Project Manager and let him update the plan in that way?"
Bloody crap, don't you know we already have these permissions implemented.. Forget him, all the other Project Management Officers were like, "Yeah, why don't we do that... GO ahead and implement this, we review this tomorrow, meeting adjourned..."
Today, they tested it out, don't like it... so we go the same route again in the meeting today...
Time's awasting, dudes...
