Let me show you why…

Firstly, the customer will explain to you what they want. Most of the time, the customer have something in their mind but when it comes out of their mouth, it would be something else.

Then the Project Leader, who are leading the programming team, would come up with his or her version based on what he or she understood from the customer.

At the same time, the business consultant, with his or her I-know-it-all attitude would brief the team on his or her version of the customer;s requirements.

The analyst, on the other hand, normally does not really give a damn about the other two people and come up with his or her own ideas… Best kan?

The the programmer takes over. Most of the time things just don’t work…

Documentation? What documentation?

When the Operation side takes over and installed the work, it turns out to be something else since most people hate to read instruction properly.

Then after some troubleshooting and debugging was done, the product would be tested and most of the time, it would fail… That’sthe reality of it…

Eventually, the project is completed and the support kicks in… Just look at what has happened…

So, back to the beginning, The Marketing people come up with the product and all promises that it can be made to the customer’s expectation. You know, the sun and the moon stuffs…

Then when the customer got the bill, they would go, “What the hell!”

And what they actually needed was a different thing in the first place…

And the Project Manager get to enjoy all of the above throughout a project…

Fun? You tell me.

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It has been a very long time since my last update. My bad! The last time I was busy trying to get a job and did not update for a long time. This time, I was busy with work and I do not have much time left for me to update as frequently as I used to be. Nevertheless, this blog will not be left to die and that is a promise. I just need to add some extra motivation to my life so that I would be able to write more often… We will see whether that would actually happen or not… haha!

Anyway, maybe I will let you all know what is going on at work and why I did not have time to update aka the excuse of not updating…

The thing is that I was taking care of 6 projects. I said was since a few days ago, I got to transfer two of my projects to another project manager and that leaves me with just 4 and may be then, I would have some time to just pop in here and write a word or two ha…

My first project is to manage the development of a portal for the agency that takes care of all the wild animals in West Malaysia. This is an agency where animals go to lodge complaints against the human… just kidding but really, they do take care of the animals welfare…

My second project is to attend monitoring meetings for a digital library project for the ministry of defence. Nothing much to do but lots of time taken to travel to the meeting sites. The previous meetings were held in Lumut, Port Dickson, Johor Bahru and Alor Star. The next meeting would be held in Port Dickson again.

My third project is to manage some hardware and software subscription and maintenance services for one of the local universities. The fourth (given to another PM recently) was about the same thing but for the agency that takes care of the Prime Minister… Lucky guy for having a whole agency making sure that he is okay…

The fifth (also given to another PM) was another digital library project and this time it is for the agency that take cares of the lawyers… No wonder they are so…. err… choose your own descriptions to describe them… heh heh!

The last and the latest and the one that has been taking most of my time is a data leakage prevention project for one of the oil and gas giants in Malaysia… Lots of meetings just to complete the scope of work… Guess what? It is not complete yet…

So, there you go! Those are the things that have been keeping me busy! Till then, see you later and take care!

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