Comments on: That Headline Needs a Punchline http://qahatesyou.com/wordpress/2007/07/that-headline-needs-a-punchline/ You suspected it. Now you know it. Tue, 15 May 2012 21:22:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: DarkStar http://qahatesyou.com/wordpress/2007/07/that-headline-needs-a-punchline/comment-page-1/#comment-18 DarkStar Fri, 20 Jul 2007 20:41:31 +0000 http://qahatesyou.com/wordpress/2007/07/19/that-headline-needs-a-punchline/#comment-18 If the project manager commits seppuku, the developers are likely to commit oibara. This will leave Project Mangagement AND Development in the hands of the QA professional. Not that an Account Executive wouldn't be there to help, but no doubt their approach would be to reassign the work to QA. But hey... with fewer technical folks around to work on the project, the budget won't be overrun nearly as quickly, giving the Account Manager more time to come up with explanations and work-arounds for the customer.... so this just might work.... If the project manager commits seppuku, the developers are likely to commit oibara. This will leave Project Mangagement AND Development in the hands of the QA professional. Not that an Account Executive wouldn’t be there to help, but no doubt their approach would be to reassign the work to QA.

But hey… with fewer technical folks around to work on the project, the budget won’t be overrun nearly as quickly, giving the Account Manager more time to come up with explanations and work-arounds for the customer…. so this just might work….

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