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ASTUTELY OBTUSE
Snark, insight, and strong language
Welcome to Astutely Obtuse, a site dedicated to discussing the obvious in a snarky way. The business world and project management aren't the optimistic utopia often expressed by colleges and instructors with certification bodies. Astutely Obtuse is our way of discussing what happens when things go to absolute shit.
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SHORTS: Why I’m Fed Up With PMI: A Rant Against AI
It's crazy-pants to think that an organization would keep someone on the payroll whose entire job is to just talk to the project team members, while AI does all the project management work
Jer
Apr 306 min read
Your Accreditation Body Sucks: How Professional Certifications Crush Your Soul
To suggest that you have a book with all the answers, but you must pore over it to truly understand it isn't a cert program, it's a religion
Josh
Apr 168 min read
It's Good to Be Queen
an autonomous PMO is driven by delivering the project. A project team without that autonomy is driven by making someone else happy
Jer
Apr 98 min read
They're Babies with a Second Grade Reading Level
If you met a baby who could read at a second-grade level, you would be pretty impressed, right?
Jer
Apr 211 min read
Your Project Team Sucks: When Grotesque Inefficiency Isn’t a Strong Enough Descriptor
why are AAA games so damn expensive to make? Is it the voice actors; the marketing; corporate expenses?
Josh
Mar 2611 min read
The Not So Quiet Genius of Herb Wasserman
Herb recognized that clients are “snot-sucking bastards with the IQ of lumpy fucking gravy.”
Josh
Jun 10, 20247 min read
Why Your Project Team Sucks: Your Stand-Ups are Alive, with the Sound of Jargon
Prioritization by categorization probably isn’t going anywhere.
Jer
May 20, 20246 min read
Your Project Teams Sucks: Part 7 | Your Processes are Bad, and You Should Feel Bad
If a process is so loosely defined that I can make a valid argument that something isn’t my job, even if it is, you have a problem.
Jer
Mar 16, 20239 min read
Your Project Teams Sucks: Part 6 | You Follow the Philosophy of an Aging Rock-Star
How does an octogenarian piece of shit fit in with your project team sucking?
Jer
Mar 13, 20236 min read
Your Project Team Sucks: Part 5 | The Perfect Hire: Listen All Y’all It’s Self-Sabotage
They don’t actually care about your experience, they just use it as shorthand for “doesn’t need instruction.”
Jer
Feb 19, 20238 min read
Why Your Project Team Sucks: Part 4 The Whirlwind Romance with Tech-Debt
I told our PM that if we don’t do it the right way now, we’ll never get around to it. It’s just how we work, tech-debt is never revisited.
Jer
Feb 8, 20237 min read
Why Your Project Team Sucks: Part 2 Your Product Owner is Secretly Detective Colombo
He wasn’t paying attention during the planning phase because he was thinking about quitting.
Jer
Jan 25, 20236 min read
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