August 2008 Archives

Much Ado About Methodologies

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ACT 1 Scene 1

It's an an early morning in Verilab Austin. Tommy's office. He's just picked up Davie Robinson who is visiting from the UK Verilab team. Davie's now working in the conference room with JL, while Tommy goes over his email. As he works his way through the list, a sequence of visitors arrive, either physically or via new emails or IMs:

[Davie pops his head through Tommy's office doorway]

Davie: So, when did we standardize on the VMM?

Tommy: When did we what?

Davie: The VMM. You said we standardized on it.

[JL arrives next to Davie]

JL: Why did you say we've standardized on the VMM?

Tommy: [suspicious] Who says I said we standardized on it?

Davie and JL: [together - pointing to a press release] That did!

Email from Gordon (Verilab UK): Seems we've standardized on the VMM

JL: Did you see Gordon's email?

Tommy: Hang on I'm ....

Email from Mark (Verilab Germany): I'm using OVM at the moment. Am I supposed to stop?

Tommy: %*&!$....

[Exeunt JL and Davie. Backing away, slowly]

Here's the reason for the consternation:

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