Adventures in Mismanagement |
The day was Tuesday May
20, in the year 1999. Ugh  was sitting quietly at his desk
awaiting the news. The CEO for Teknologeez Plus (TP),  Pops
Johnson, had been in that conference room for over three hours with the people from Crazy
Electronics. What could be taking so long? Ugh knew that it would take some time, but
still...TP needed that contract! Without it, he knew his career was over, his wife would
take his club and beat him with it, his cave would be foreclosed upon, and his Wooly
Mammoth repossessed. Three hours and five minutes. Tick, toc, tick, toc....As the minutes ticked by, Ugh found himself worrying whether TP could do the work even if they won the contract.What was troubling Ugh was the fact that TP did not perform a Feasibility Study. No one had thought hard about what needed to be done and whether TP had the resources - people, money, facilities - to do it. Ugh sighed. "If we get the contract," he thought, " we'll manage to find some way to do it. At least I hope so." Just then, he heard cheers coming down the hall. He knew then, succeed or not, that TP would have their chance. |