Friday, January 25, 2008

Revolutionary Change Request #3

Rejoice Comrades!

As part of the Revolutionary Change Control Board, I am please to announce that we have formally accepted Revolutionary Change Request #3. Yes, Comrades. Even knowing the fate of the last team to bring in a change request, we still have received one. I must tell you that I and my fellow comrades on the RCCB were very shocked. To think that someone would jump through all of the hoops to bring this in is astounding.

But enough of this ranting. I can accept this.

Comrades, this proposal was quite boring actually. It was merely an ask for a decrease in phase 45B section 2c ii.3 of the Revolutionary Management Plan to require that some sort of database be kept to track who is actually in the Revolution. Obviously, we could tell that this request must of come from a comrade who formerly worked in Business and was trying to implement a LEAN process to bring about a more efficient way to manage the Revolution.

We employed some lateral thinking to come up with what some high level impacts would be, like the Feds being able to hack into our system and immediately know what was happening. Which would mean we would have to do a reorg to realign out of our revolutionary cell structure to be more efficient except in regards to the security which cannot be mitigated in any other way.

Yes, Comrades, although normally we should not shoot a messenger no matter the news, we had to.

Obviously, our indoctrination is flawed.

I must found out whatever happened to the suggestion I put in to improve the indoctrination. Not a change, comrades, just a minor improvement.

Rejoice! We shall not have any more of this unfortunate nonsense soon!

Wednesday, January 23, 2008

Activity Resource Estimating

Rejoice Comrades!

I am writing here to provide more detail on how we gathered we didn't have enough in-house revolutionary talent. That is through the power of our Revolutionary Environmental Factors (like distributed revolutionary cells), our Revolutionary Process Assets (such as the power of following a revolutionary project management methodology), a list of revolutionary activities, the availability of some of our Comrade Revolutionaries, and of course, our revolutionary management plan.

Yes, comrades, through this power, we are able to estimate which of our comrades in the other cells are available for and can engage in more revolutionary activity.

We have received an initial response from one revolutionary outsourcing company, but due to NDA restrictions all I can tell you at this point is that they don't have the type of scalability that we are looking for...

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Or maybe they do?...

Rejoice Comrades! The Revolution shall be up to staff in no time!

Tuesday, January 22, 2008

Outsourcing Statement of Work

Rejoice Comrades!

While reviewing some of the preliminary revolutionary statement of work, we have discovered that even if (and we are) engage in an all out hiring spree for the revolution, it doesn't look like there is enough skilled labor to go around. Therefore, it is with great reluctance that we are moving into a revolutionary contingency strategy to mitigate the risk of having too few in-house revolutionaries. Yes, Comrades, Outsourcing otherwise known as Revolutionary Project Procurement Management, yes Comrades we are putting out some of our Statement of Work to bid.

I've taken into consideration the our Revolution's assets, the Revolutionary preliminary scope statement in regards to the work that needs to be globalized, the and consulted the official Revolutionary Project Management Plan, tried contacting the Revolutionary Procurement Management Planning Cell (still waiting for a response) and have sent out the Revolution's Request for Proposal. This is work that will only be placed outside the revolution's organization until we are able to bring it back in house. We do not want to lose the knowledge base that we have been building for the revolution.

In other meetings today, we lost yet another cell. This one appeared to be engaged in an infiltration of the system to attack the 'Man' from within. Unfortunately, they were co-opted by the lucrative 401k and medical package and are living in the suburbs. Under the normal Revolutionary Human Resource Management Plan's Revolutionary Workers Seduced by The Man paragraph J, subsection 9(b), we have dispatched a team to deal with them.

Rejoice Comrades! The Revolution is making incremental improvements in conducting internal revolutionary bureaucratic processes!

Monday, January 21, 2008

Finish No Earlier Than Constraints Abolished!

Rejoice Comrades!

In choosing the Revolutions Project Management Methodology and the depth of the Project Management Process Groups, when creating the Revolutionary Work Breakdown Structure and creating the bottoms up schedule for the Revolution, the Revolutionary Leadership group has moved forward with formally adopting no longer using the 'Finish No Earlier Than' Constraint on tasks. The reason for this is simple. We must move forward as quickly as we can in bringing the Revolution to the people, so there is no need to artificially hold up the schedule. If this means constantly juggling a new critical path as items appear and disappear from it, then so be it. This is the only way to truly move the revolution forward.

Rejoice Comrades! With decisions like these, we come ever closer to the day of Revolution!