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Work Chronicles

Work Chronicles produces comics about the workplace, created with dedication and a passion for coffee. The comics have been available for four years and offer humorous takes on work life.

(comic) Annual Planning

What’s wrong with the intern’s statement?

<a href="https://app.daily.dev/kazi808183" data-mention-id="vTdNspCNZBoFVLFZjWzFv" data-mention-username="kazi808183">@kazi808183</a> My interpretation is that the intern is a junior position lacking experience. He does not not yet know that, in spite of planning, variables in a work environment over a long time frame like 12 months will always require even the best plans to be altered. Executive decisions, mergers and acquisitions, market changes, product changes, supply chain effects, staff changes, workforce reductions, politics, legislation and regulatory changes, and world events (like COVID, or wars), are all examples of things that can prevent execution of a plan as originally written. The people around him have experienced these type of events in the past and are therefore amused at the idea of following a plan as first written.

design docs are just a way to prevent scope creep. how much should they be followed? if they get changed then they are a moving target.
this cartoon brings up some hard questions. is a algorithm to be made to know if one is following the design doc too much or modifying it too much? Perhaps something with Hamming distance but for English words, sentences, and hopefully meaning, not just string comparison.