Comments on: When the VCR catches you lying http://blog.nerdguru.net/2008/07/when-the-vcr-catches-you-lying.html Because technical people need good soft skills to get ahead. Fri, 09 Jan 2009 13:21:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: lucidTipster http://blog.nerdguru.net/2008/07/when-the-vcr-catches-you-lying.html/comment-page-1#comment-1032 lucidTipster Fri, 01 Aug 2008 22:30:54 +0000 http://blog.nerdguru.net/?p=266#comment-1032 Aha ... now I know why all the clocks in our house were analog :) Good story ... I have personally experienced this on my project where one particular individual always said the task was difficult and would required blah blah blah and the estimates were always very inflated. This happened for every task ... small or big. We eventually lost trust in the individual and realized that the estimates provided by him did not hold any value. We started giving him deadlines to complete the tasks instead of asking for estimates. -lucidTipster http://www.lucidtips.com Aha … now I know why all the clocks in our house were analog :)

Good story … I have personally experienced this on my project where one particular individual always said the task was difficult and would required blah blah blah and the estimates were always very inflated. This happened for every task … small or big. We eventually lost trust in the individual and realized that the estimates provided by him did not hold any value. We started giving him deadlines to complete the tasks instead of asking for estimates.

-lucidTipster
http://www.lucidtips.com

]]> By: Tac Anderson http://blog.nerdguru.net/2008/07/when-the-vcr-catches-you-lying.html/comment-page-1#comment-1030 Tac Anderson Thu, 31 Jul 2008 17:26:02 +0000 http://blog.nerdguru.net/?p=266#comment-1030 Or, just know how to change the time on the VCR :) Or, just know how to change the time on the VCR :)

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