Suppose your job requires you to periodically complete a complex set of automated spreadsheets that (supposedly) will populate a series of PowerPoint charts. These charts are used to brief the bigshots on the status of your programs and so, they have to be accurate, up to date and consistent. Last November, when you last accomplished this work, the version of the spreadsheet was version 6.0. Now that you have to do these charts again, you notice that the latest version of the same spreadsheet is version 9.5!
Does that feel like maybe you aren't really dealing with a mature system? Maybe you're dealing with a system so immature that somebody in a position of power needs to call "knock-it-off" until it is developed fully?
That scenario is just one of the joys of my life this week...
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