Before reading

I know it has been a long since I wrote a post but I did not feel like doing it, but now we are back in the game so lets start. The last time we talked about the book we ended up in a situation where all the things were running perfectly for Mr T, but then the NNL decided to leave Morovia and leave someone in charge, someone called Mr B, and this Mr B decided to update things a little bit he reduced the deadline for the six projects and desmantelated the a and b teams that he had for every project just to make one team per project, of course Mr T was not happy about it but with his coworkers decided to run the same projects but withouth Mr B to know it, which actually means more work to do, and less time.

Chapter 12

By now and with the changes Mr B did all the good developers were now working on the projects for Mr B and the other devs were working for Mr T in a place that General Markov knew and Mr B did not. This means that now they have 18 projects to run six A teams and twelve B and C teams, which of course is a tremendous amount of work, which of course our main characters will have to deal with it, it could no everything perfect right?

While Mr T was hanging around he found a misterious letter from Lahska, a letter that said that she was now working in a company in Massachusetts where they focused on meassure things but more specifically software, and that she met someone that could be really useful for Mr T operations now that he has more work to do and less time to do it.

A strange men came to Morovia, Lashka’s friend, a men that knew exactly what to say, when to say and how to say things, who spoke twice as fast as a human being and someone who knew everything about Morovia and computers combined, someone who apparently knew more than the NNL himself.

This men were only in morovia for almost five hours but in those five hours he did more than Mr T could have done in weeks, with all the data and all the information that Mr T had in his office he developed a chart where all the six projects were now meassured in a unit called function point, a unit that nobody knew what do to with, nobody until Belinda came. As soon as Belinda understood how the units worked she knew that all the models and diagrams that they have been designing were now usefull and had a meaning, something that they were trying to do for a long time but could not because of some things that we will discuss later.

Now with everything understood Mr T wanted to know a way to determine in which part of the whole development where they, he wanted to meassure in time a software that is not done, the way that this could be done is by analyzing some other projects projects that have been done and has been similar to the things they are doing ATM.

But they needed someone that could recap information, someone that knew everyone and everything that happened in Morovia, someone who knew how to get information and get it quickly, someone like…. Wait Waldo brought us some cofee, thanks Wald now let us think about someone who has been here all along, yeah thats probably someone who we dont already know, Hey Waldo can you get info about people around here that could fill this job, and quick please? You just gotta be in the right place to become a manager, Waldo all of a sudden and because he was the right man became a manager, because in big projects digging for data from which you can learn a lot is really important and having someone that specializes on it its actually really good.

Now it was time to start working again because six big projects will not be ready in one day.

Belinda was upset, not because something was not going according the plan but because it took them almost months to start what Lahska’s friend did in almost five hours, there is no such thing as we could not do it without him, there is always something that we can do, the difference is that if is hard enough to make us lazy, it will make us lazy, and it’s normal, I am not saying it is ok but sometimes we need a little break from the lots of work that we are into.

My own experience

Through the years that I have been working on different projects I have never faced a problem when hidding from the boss was the answer thats something that I recommend you not to do it because I will cause you trouble so do not do it, but the thing that there is something that we can do but laziness gets control over us thats a total fact, sometimes when something is really dificult we wait until someone arrives to help us to start working on it, but there is always something that we can do, we just have to find out what is that thing that we need to to and start doing it.

And is totally normal not to be sure what our mission on earth is, the only thing that we should be worried about is if the things that we are doing at the moment are making us happy or not, that is the thing we sould be worry about, remember to always to what you really like.

This post deadline

Here we go again, as I said in the previous post, this book has some ups and downs, even though this was not the best chapter that we have read, this was actually one of the good ones, because it had story, had some trouble and had a little mesage at the end of the chapter that made us think about our mission on earth, this is what I really like about this book, its like a box of chocolates you never know what you are gonna to get. So for this reason I decided yo give this chapter a 7/10 Because I liked it and I love when I like this book.