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If IT Projects were run by Militant Groups

It was a normal Monday morning. Well that is ’till 10:00 A.M. when Larry and I were ushered into the board room. The chairman of the board and several other managers were already seated and two men in dark black suits whom I failed to recognize.
“Good Morning Gentlemen”, opened the chairman and I immediately noticed that none of the female managers were present. “I have called this meeting to announce a few changes to the firm.
Firstly, as a result of a hostile takeover, the company is now part of the Salam Medina Overseas Investment Group.”

Suddenly without warning one of the men in the black suits took out a pistol and shot the chairmen. Two cleaning guys came from nowhere and removed the body from the room. The other man in black addressed the floor. The room went silent.

“At this time I would like to make a few things clear.
1. We resent the word hostile. Achmed and myself represent a peace loving middle-east country.
2. As you may have noticed, we have removed all female managers from their duties so as to avoid undue distractions Those of them who chose to remain in the firm can find ample work in the coffee room.
3. We proud ourselves of the fact that we are very open to your criticisms. You will find our doors eternally open. You should be warned that if we don’t accept your suggestions we might find it necessary to shoot you.
4. We have installed a suggestion box adjacent to the stairs leading down to the basement. Please ignore the screams coming from the basement. I assure you that the rumors of our policy to torture everyone who thinks he is more capable than us at running the company are mostly unfounded.
5. It has come to our attention that over 100 bugs have been found in software turned over to full production in the last quarter. We don’t believe n bugs. Starting today there will be no more bugs. To quote a senior IS VP back home: ‘No more bugs, no more bloodshed’.

6. We have had to fire Martin, the PMO, after he informed us that several of the company’s projects were at least a day behind schedule. Before you consider informing us of any further delays you should ask Ibrahim, our fire chef about his butane expertise.
Now if you have any questions, my colleague Muhammad will be more than pleased to answer them. Don’t worry about the sub-machine gun he’s holding, it’s only a precaution.”

The room remained silent.

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