Comments on: Netflix’s project management acumen is impressive http://www.plaintivemewling.com/articles/netflixs-project-management-acumen-is-impressive Incessant chatterings of a young fart Wed, 07 Jan 2009 11:41:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 by: Ask Bjørn Hansen http://www.plaintivemewling.com/articles/netflixs-project-management-acumen-is-impressive#comment-441 Wed, 12 Sep 2007 09:43:39 +0000 http://www.plaintivemewling.com/articles/netflixs-project-management-acumen-is-impressive#comment-441 No kidding about the schedules. One of my $BIG_CORP clients occasionally show me big schedules printed over many many pages with the "release plans" for the next 9/12/18 months. In almost two years of helping them I don't think I've seen any of those last more than a month; maybe two, before being completely unrecognizable. :-) What can be so hard about deleting a profile? If it's because they don't want to lose the ratings the user has made, then "update profile set {hidden,deleted}=1 where id=?" should do it. - ask No kidding about the schedules.

One of my $BIG_CORP clients occasionally show me big schedules printed over many many pages with the “release plans” for the next 9/12/18 months.

In almost two years of helping them I don’t think I’ve seen any of those last more than a month; maybe two, before being completely unrecognizable. :-)

What can be so hard about deleting a profile?

If it’s because they don’t want to lose the ratings the user has made, then “update profile set {hidden,deleted}=1 where id=?” should do it.

- ask

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