benjc
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- Oct 25, 2008
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CAR TROUBLE
A Software Engineer, a Hardware Engineer
and a Departmental Manager were on
their way to a meeting in Switzerland.
They were driving down a steep mountain road
when suddenly the brakes on their car failed.
The car careened almost out of control
down the road, bouncing off the crash barriers,
until it miraculously ground to a halt scraping along
the mountainside.
The car's occupants, shaken but unhurt,
now had a problem: they were stuck halfway
down a mountain in a car with no brakes.
What were they to do?
"I know," said the Departmental Manager.
"Let's have a meeting, propose a Vision,
formulate a Mission Statement, define some Goals,
and by a process of Continuous Improvement,
Change Management, Re-Engineering and Service Integration,
find a solution to the Critical Problems, and
we can be on our way."
"No, no," said the Hardware Engineer.
"That will take far too long, and besides, that method
has never worked before. I've got my Swiss Army knife
with me, and in no time at all I can strip down the car's braking system, isolate the fault, fix it, and we can be on our way."
"Well," said the Software Engineer.
"Before we do anything, I think we should
push the car back up the road and see if it happens again."
A Software Engineer, a Hardware Engineer
and a Departmental Manager were on
their way to a meeting in Switzerland.
They were driving down a steep mountain road
when suddenly the brakes on their car failed.
The car careened almost out of control
down the road, bouncing off the crash barriers,
until it miraculously ground to a halt scraping along
the mountainside.
The car's occupants, shaken but unhurt,
now had a problem: they were stuck halfway
down a mountain in a car with no brakes.
What were they to do?
"I know," said the Departmental Manager.
"Let's have a meeting, propose a Vision,
formulate a Mission Statement, define some Goals,
and by a process of Continuous Improvement,
Change Management, Re-Engineering and Service Integration,
find a solution to the Critical Problems, and
we can be on our way."
"No, no," said the Hardware Engineer.
"That will take far too long, and besides, that method
has never worked before. I've got my Swiss Army knife
with me, and in no time at all I can strip down the car's braking system, isolate the fault, fix it, and we can be on our way."
"Well," said the Software Engineer.
"Before we do anything, I think we should
push the car back up the road and see if it happens again."
