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    #11
    What's the worst that could happen?

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      #12
      Originally posted by BR14 View Post
      IT'S ALL GOING TO GO HORRIBLY WRONG!
      YOU'RE ALL GONNA DIE!

      RUN AWAY!
      RUN AWAY!

      I might take next week off

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        #13
        Originally posted by woohoo View Post
        Give me some words of encouragement.
        “Don’t eat yellow snow.”

        “Head down and follow through” Note that this applies on a golf course, not a curry house.

        “What’s the worst that could happen?” (Edward J Smith, Titanic)

        “What’s the worst that could happen?” (Lockheed Martin SM_FORCES engineers)

        “What’s the worst that could happen?” (Cojak on proposing a new mod, WTFH)

        More practical words:
        1. Are all your timesheets and invoices up to date?
        2. Have you found the weakest member of the team who can be blamed/sacrificed?
        3. Have you filled your shared calendar with fake job interviews?
        4. Have you created/hacked the issues spreadsheet to make it unusable?
        5. Graphs. Pie charts. Lots of them. As meaningless as possible.
        …Maybe we ain’t that young anymore

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          #14
          Originally posted by WTFH View Post
          4. Have you created/hacked the issues spreadsheet to make it unusable?
          Just come off a migration where all the quality gates were busted by issues being down graded by Group. The status report showed Red for most of the time but then went Green as the delivery was handed over, the fallout this morning to the company has been severe but no heads will roll
          Tis the new Project Delivery model of hold the date rather than hold the service
          Beggars belief

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            #15
            It will be fine


            ....honest
            Growing old is mandatory
            Growing up is optional

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              #16
              Relax, nobody is going to die.

              Unless, well, they might.

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                #17
                Originally posted by Benny View Post
                Just come off a migration where all the quality gates were busted by issues being down graded by Group. The status report showed Red for most of the time but then went Green as the delivery was handed over, the fallout this morning to the company has been severe but no heads will roll
                Tis the new Project Delivery model of hold the date rather than hold the service
                Beggars belief
                Close to standard practice these days. Management report what their bosses want to hear, unless they can find an obvious way to blame a different department/company.
                …Maybe we ain’t that young anymore

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                  #18
                  Hope you have a roll back plan

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                    #19
                    Just add "Production Testing" to the plan then point at it if anything goes wrong.

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                      #20
                      Originally posted by woohoo View Post
                      Give me some words of encouragement.
                      With such experts on hand, what could possibly go wrong....?

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