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Joe62 <NOSPAM...@shaw.ca> wrote in message news:<krl5q0prljb2d5onn...@4ax.com>...
> "Augustus" <Imperia...@Rome.com> wrote:
> 
> >First: Is this problem, the big crunch time, the result of EA and its
> >management?  Or is it the result of the people working before the crunch
> >time?  Case in point: My own company.  I've had a few times in the past 2
> >years where we've had a big crunch time at the end to meet a deadline (where
> >everybody is working 15-18 hours a day, 7 days a week, for a month) and in
> >every case it was because someone down the line was slacking off and wound
> >up delaying the project for a couple of weeks where everybody had no choice
> >but to sit around for 3 or 4 weeks waiting for him to catch up with the rest
> >of us... and then we had to put in all the overtime to get back on schedule.
> 
> What a load of HORSESHIT. Schedule slippages are always management's
> fault. In every case. By definition. It is management's JOB to manage
> schedules, people, and sort out dependencies before they cause
> problems. If it's not happening, you are not doing YOUR job. Don't
> blame some worker because your project managers are lazy or
> incompetent. 
> 
Just curious as to the reasoning behind this. The project manager
assigned a chap 1 week to finish certain work, which he failed to
complete. The project manager then has no choice but to reassign some
of the work to others on the team, so now everyone has to work for
some extra hours to catch up. And it becomes the project manager's
fault? Or should the person who fails to finish the assigned tasks on
schedule should be fired?

I would really like to know about everyone's opinions on this.   :-)