Andrew Meyer blogged about a short hand method of cutting to the chase when it comes to finding excuses. He and his readers compiled a list of numbered excuses so that people can refer to them by their number instead of going through the inefficient process of voicing them manually.
I think this is great! How about using it in combination with a spinning wheel, or one of those dice with a ridiculous amount of sides? The possibilities are endless! We could even get the team involved by picking someone out of a hat to have the honor of rolling the die or spinning the wheel in a team meeting to determine which excuses we will use. Talk about teamwork!
I really like number 12, “The Development, Testing, QA, Production environments aren’t the same, the sysadmins are looking at it, they should be done…“ A related one that is very popular: “We are working on that with xxxx….we should have more information by the end of the [day, week].” -Next week’s meeting: “We are working on that with xxxx….we should have more information by the end of the [day, week].”
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We’ve actually done this at work. There’s a spinning arm that points to an excuse of why the project isn’t done yet. It was fun at first but I’m not even sure where it is now.
We’ve actually done this at work. There’s a spinning arm that points to an excuse of why the project isn’t done yet. It was fun at first but I’m not even sure where it is now.