Interruptions..

ByMike McBride Reading Time: 1 minute

Not making the progress I want to so far. Had a few interruptions, and I’m expecting a few more, unfortunately. One of those “Mike can you tell us ‘XYZ’ from this data even though we never bothered to track the data that would actually tell you “XYZ” from the start of the project and have no idea how to get it now?” sort of things. That, of course, will lead to senior level discussions about why I can’t “fix” the problem, even though the problem was created by design, a design which I was never even approached about until now. In fact, it’s a design change that I have, in the past, tried to get people to implement ahead of time so we don’t have this same “problem” every year. Nice…

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