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The geekiest instant message that I've sent (in a while)...

  • Artigo

As I'm getting ready to roll off the current engagement, I've been having conversations with the next vic-, er, person in line to "Assume the Position"® who was lamenting the lack of Rules of Engagement. Statement of purpose. Or even general direction.

When the conversation reached the point of ambiguity that the role doesn't even have a proper mission statement, I shared my personal guiding philosophy about being given executive direction:

David Reed says: MissionStatement = MissionStatement == null ? WriteOwnMissionStatement() : UseMissionStatementGiven();

It also helps to take that output back past the client for further validation, but of course, I have a higher chaos tolerance than many... Odd how it doesn't seem as funny now as it did with less sleep. Guess you had to be there.

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  • Anonymous
    November 29, 2007
    Personally, I would have phrased it "I've been having conversations with my superb replacement, future Sql Ranger and evangelist of all things Sql Server" But that's just me.

  • Anonymous
    November 30, 2007
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