29 lines
1.3 KiB
Plaintext
29 lines
1.3 KiB
Plaintext
this is for all you techno-geeks. enjoy...guy
|
|
|
|
***********************************************
|
|
|
|
A Software Engineer, a Hardware Engineer and a Departmental Manager
|
|
were on their way to a meeting in Switzerland. They were driving down a
|
|
steep mountain road when suddenly the brakes on their car failed. The
|
|
car careened almost out of control down the road, bouncing off the
|
|
crash barriers, until it miraculously ground to a halt scraping along
|
|
the mountainside. The car's occupants, shaken but unhurt, now had a
|
|
problem: they were stuck halfway down a mountain in a car with no
|
|
brakes. What were they to do?
|
|
|
|
|
|
"I know", said the Departmental Manager, "Let's have a meeting, propose
|
|
a Vision, formulate a Mission Statement, define some Goals, and by a
|
|
process of Continuous Improvement find a solution to the Critical
|
|
Problems, and we can be on our way."
|
|
|
|
|
|
"No, no", said the Hardware Engineer, "That will take far too long, and
|
|
besides, that method has never worked before. I've got my Swiss Army
|
|
knife with me, and in no time at all I can strip down the car's braking
|
|
system, isolate the fault, fix it, and we can be on our way."
|
|
|
|
|
|
"Well", said the Software Engineer, "Before we do anything, I think we
|
|
should push the car back up the road and see if it happens again."
|