A tourist walked into a pet shop and was looking at the animals on display. While he was there, another customer walked in and said to the shopkeeper, "I'll have a C monkey please." The shopkeeper nodded, went over to a cage at the side of the shop and took out a monkey. He fitted a collar and leash, handed it to the customer, saying, "That'll be $5,000."The customer paid and walked out with his monkey. Startled, the tourist went over to the shopkeeper and said, "That was a very expensive monkey. Most of them are only a few hundred bucks. Why did it cost so much?" The shopkeeper answered, "Ah, that monkey can program in C - very fast, tight code, no bugs, well worth the money."
The tourist looked at a monkey in another cage. "Hey, that one's even more expensive! $10,000! What does it do?" "Oh, that one's a C++ monkey; it can manage object-oriented programming, Visual C++, even some Java. All the really useful stuff," said the shopkeeper.
The tourist looked around for a little longer and saw a third monkey in a cage of its own. The price tag around its neck read $50,000. The tourist gasped to the shopkeeper, "That one costs more than all the others put together! What on earth does it do?" The shopkeeper replied, "Well, I haven't actually seen it do anything, but it says it's a project manager".
2 comments:
Are you trying to encite feedback? Part of me says, "Hey, not fair!" Another part says, "oh, those ones." When I think about it long enough, it actaully gets me to an area MITA doesn't really try to get into for better or worse. The way organizations manage change would seem critical to moving up the mITA capability ladder. Is the implication that plenty has been said on the subject of change and managing projects, so go figure it out and do it right?
mita-naut: nothing nearly so sinister my friend. I was bored and liked the joke :-)
However...the project management and cultural change aspects of MITA do need some attention. We'll see if we can open that proverbial can of worms on here in the near future. Thanks for the comment!
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