And almost sixty-five percent of that was actual compliment. Is that a personal best?

Xander ,'End of Days'


Natter 43: I Love My Dead Gay Whale Crosspost.  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


msbelle - Mar 02, 2006 10:59:59 am PST #908 of 10001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

I'm sure I took a project management course in grad school but that was over 10 years ago. I know no PM references.

The SOS sets things like price of product, profit-sharing (wrong term) structure on the deal, any minimum product guarantees, life of the product, what we will report to them and how often, what marketing they will agree to for our product, whether the relationship is exclusive, Taht's all I can think of.


Theodosia - Mar 02, 2006 11:05:45 am PST #909 of 10001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"

Can you just get that at a pharmacy, Theo?

Yup, on the shelves near the other nasal sprays. "Ocean" is the most common brand I've run across. I don't like the CVS generic equivalent, which feels harsher to me (I'm a bit of a pea-princess through no mental fault of my own) and I don't know what others are like.

Last night in yoga, one of the more woo-woo instructors kept telling us to keep our drishti on our third eye, when he wasn't telling us to look at our left big toe or whatever. He demonstrated hooking his legs over his shoulders and picking himself up by his hands, then unfolding smoothly into a plank position, so if it takes locating my third eye to do that kind of thing... it may be a while....


tommyrot - Mar 02, 2006 11:07:45 am PST #910 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

My depth perception totally sucks, so it's time for my third eye to get off its lazy ass and help out....


§ ita § - Mar 02, 2006 11:08:58 am PST #911 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I know no PM references.

Till I came here I PMed with no instruction and no resources. Since being here I recognise the benefit of a documented methodology, and the training has been basically useful. But DAMN. For a standard project here, we're talking .... 50 required documents (including some separate signoffs and go/no go) for a standard sized project.

Your ass is covered, but your hands could fall off with the typing.

The SOS sets things

What do you call the document where they tell you what they need?


Theodosia - Mar 02, 2006 11:10:26 am PST #912 of 10001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"

I should add, he may be woo-woo, but he does endear himself to me when he says things like "Keep your gaze on the big toe" and then three seconds later add, "Your own big toe."


Jesse - Mar 02, 2006 11:15:37 am PST #913 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

ita, you might get some use out of this book [link] which is more political than technical. IIRC, considering it was for a class I had in the fall and hated. Actually, if you want mine, I'd sell it to you cheap...


msbelle - Mar 02, 2006 11:16:12 am PST #914 of 10001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

What do you call the document where they tell you what they need?

All they need from us is the finished product and possibly design work for marketing materials. We do not encourage them needing much from us. We are not working with folks the same way you are.


§ ita § - Mar 02, 2006 11:21:41 am PST #915 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

All they need from us is the finished product and possibly design work for marketing materials

You don't provide everyone with exactly the same product, though, right? At some point (near the beginning) don't they say "Blue, tweed, five inches long and lemon-scented, please."?

Jesse, that's just the sort of book I love to have on my bookshelf. Name a price (don't forget shipping!) and I'll paypal you the funds.


Jesse - Mar 02, 2006 11:23:49 am PST #916 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Suh-weet! I was considering holding on to it, but honestly, I'm not going to be a project manager. AND I have to go to the post office tomorrow or Saturday. Or some other day in the near future. $30?


shrift - Mar 02, 2006 11:26:49 am PST #917 of 10001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty

I'm bored and homicidal.