August 21, 2002

Every programmer's mortal enemy

Did you know that PowerPoint has a Communicating Bad News template?

You can almost visualize an entire company lifecycle in PowerPoint templates.

PowerPoint and bad news

From Business Plan to Marketing Plan, then Company Handbook to Employee Orientation. Motivating a Team will lead to Product and Services Overview.

If you're lucky you'll make it to Selling a Product or Service. Soon enough, though, you'll hold a Company Meeting and be Managing Organizational Change.

Of course Communicating Bad News is not the end. You'll still have to do a Project Post-Mortem.

Now I understand why Edward Tufte dislikes it so much.

Posted by sam at 08:13 PM