In a recent meeting my technical lead on the MonsterOfAllProjects told me "It's not important that you know what you're doing. It's only important that you do it correctly." He was referring to my numerous questions about HOW THIS THING WORKED.
The shift from Quality Assurance to Project Management is a bit weird in this. I'm going from needing a full understanding of the process in order to bugger the hell out of it expose its weaknesses to needing to know absolutely nothing about the process. It was explained to me thusly:
Tech Lead: "Tell us what you're putting in and tell us what you want to come out. The rest is ours."Me: "Wait a sec. 'The rest' is what I'm used to dealing with."
Tech Lead: "Not any more. Mwah hah hah hah hah!!"
The evil laugh might have been a tad shorter but that was essentially how the conversation went. So now I have to change my wall sign from "If you build it, it will crash" to "Garbage in, garbage out".
You have a sign too? Mine says "Please Do NOT Feed the Analyst." I know it's lame, but no one ever does anything zany in my office. I had to put a stop to that boring nonsense.
Hye that makes three of us with signs, except mine came from Despair.com. The signs I have are:
Mettings and
Get to Work
Welcome to my side of the sandbox! Loving it yet?!?!
Garbage in Garbage out is good. Personally, mine says "No Whining" - you know, "Whining" in big letters, red circle, line slashing through it.
Of course, no one comes by my cubby except Bear and he can't read, so guess who the sign's for, hmm????
Get the PMBOK. Join the PMI. You are part of the PM Colective, now:) Resistance is futile.