Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

[Umbran]

As far as I can tell, project management is basically emailing people a list of things to do and then watching them not do those things.

No, first you have a meeting in which you talk about the things that need to be done.
The e-mail then summarizes the list of "action items".
Then, after you watch those items not get done, you send a follow up e-mail, restating the action items.
Then, at the next status meeting, you mention which items have, and have not, gotten done.
Items not done get put on the "action items" list....

...There is no theoretical upper limit to the length of the "action items" list....

 

[Ryujin]

No, first you have a meeting in which you talk about the things that need to be done.
The e-mail then summarizes the list of "action items".
Then, after you watch those items not get done, you send a follow up e-mail, restating the action items.
Then, at the next status meeting, you mention which items have, and have not, gotten done.
Items not done get put on the "action items" list....

...There is no theoretical upper limit to the length of the "action items" list....

(Neo and Morpheus with lots of Powerpoint logos flying by)

 

[Umbran]

I would recommend quoting Neil Degrass Tyson on the amount of gold that could be mined froma single asteroid

Unless you are going to claim that fungus on Mars is gonna do the asteroid mining for you...

And if you do that, the opposition will then campaign on the fact that you've created tool-using fungus that will inevitably come back and invade Earth.

 

[payn]

No, first you have a meeting in which you talk about the things that need to be done.
The e-mail then summarizes the list of "action items".
Then, after you watch those items not get done, you send a follow up e-mail, restating the action items.
Then, at the next status meeting, you mention which items have, and have not, gotten done.
Items not done get put on the "action items" list....

...There is no theoretical upper limit to the length of the "action items" list....

 

[Umbran]

Many are the meetings that could be made better with a "Release the Velociraptors" lever just at the conference room door...

 

[soviet]

As far as I can tell, project management is basically emailing people a list of things to do and then watching them not do those things.

'I think a plan is just a list of things that don't happen'

- Parker, The Way of the Gun

 

[Ryujin]

Unless you are going to claim that fungus on Mars is gonna do the asteroid mining for you...

And if you do that, the opposition will then campaign on the fact that you've created tool-using fungus that will inevitably come back and invade Earth.

In this timeline it's far more likely that they'd push for wage slavery, Beltalowda.

 

[Thomas Shey]

Don’t. The likely political solution would likely involve cutting many corners.

Like…instead of somehow getting to the asteroid, mining it, and sending back raw ore, refined metas or finished parts & products, they’ll decide to duct-tape some rockets on it and crash it in Utah to mine it down here.

And you know how THAT would work out for Earth…

Something not too far from that was part of the plot of the most recent season of For All Mankind.

 

[Staffan]

Dyin' is easy, young man. Living is harder

 

[Scribe]

--