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Random thoughts, observations, and opinions of a software engineer in corporate America.
Creative Accounting
Published on July 22, 2004 By
CS Guy
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Recently I’ve been working on resource allocation estimates for our next phase of work. This is basically an estimate of how many people are needed for each task for a three-month development cycle.
For example, Task A may need 1.5 heads, while Task B might need 0.5.
So I finish the estimate, and my boss shows it to his boss. We get a response along the lines of, “No that’s not right. You only have X number of heads to allocate. Change your estimates so that your total is X.”
This reminded me of a joke about accounting.
A hiring manager is interviewing candidates for various positions in his company. To present an even playing field he asks each candidate the same question.
The first candidate is an administrative manager.
Interviewer: “What is two plus two?”
Manager Candidate: “About four.”
The second candidate is an engineer.
Interviewer: “What is two plus two?”
Engineer: “Four point zero.”
The third candidate is an accountant.
Interviewer: “What is two plus two?”
The Accountant looks around to see who might be observing and says, “What do you want it to be?”
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trina_p
on Jul 22, 2004
That's a funny joke - as for the top part - I didn't get it when I read it before and I don't get it now.
But just for you and to get it in the forums I'm replying
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