[game_the0ry]

This is too real in big corp as well as the VC funded start up world.

A bunch of bourgeoisie over-educated idiots, usually with MBAs, who don't know how to do anything except take credit for work that other people do.

[alex_lav]

I worked at a startup that had <4 months of runway left and thought the best plan was to bring on a VP of Data Science because of their resume/history, in spite of the fact that we had no data to do science on and no customers for which to provide value via data science. That VP of Data Science turned out to be a person that didn't know how to do much more than, as the article said, "build and scale amazing teams".

The story ends as you'd expect, we all got laid off and the founder was shitty.

[game_the0ry]

> I worked at a startup that had <4 months of runway left and thought the best plan was to bring on a VP of Data Science because of their resume/history, in spite of the fact that we had no data to do science on and no customers for which to provide value via data science.

I could see this happening with AI.

[Xeoncross]

The solutions presented great.

The made sense.

They smelled good.

They made great leadership stories.

...but none of it actually mattered to the customer.

[fuzztester]

Yeah!

Reminds me of a project life cycle cartoon I first saw in a software book early in my career.

Just now searched for "systems analysis tyre cartoon" and selected this page, which seems the best, on a brief look, since it has both some history and multiple versions of the cartoon:

https://www.businessballs.com/amusement-stress-relief/tree-s...

[thih9]

There are more modern versions too, with additional panels, like: https://pmac-agpc.ca/sites/default/files/Tree.jpg

I especially like “how the customer was billed”.

[fuzztester]

>I especially like “how the customer was billed”.

Good one. A Bridge Too Far ... (1)

I shall sell them a naayysse lil ship in Arizona.

(1) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Bridge_Too_Far_(film)

[acters]

I like number 7, the documentation one, which really goes to show how little the real item is understood while everyone else is creating/imagining their own version. Dissociation within the whole team.

[fuzztester]

Nice one, I mean, nice seven. ;-)

Also, after reading your comment, I went back and looked at all the panels.

I now see a Zen-like quality of nothingness in 5, 7 and 10.

[fuzztester]

My link actually includes yours and many more, even non-computer ones.

[thih9]

Where exactly? I’m not seeing it; I’m on mobile if that matters.

[fuzztester]

Mobile here too. You have to scroll down.

Edit: Sorry, I was wrong. Must have mixed them up.