If you dropped into an organization, how could you tell who did real work? Mark Madsen has developed clues.
Most people probably know him as the insightful and entertaining creator of “Clues to the Future of Business Intelligence” and more recently of “Using Open Source BI in the Real World.” But when he’s not on stage or preparing for it, he’s consulting on BI projects.
“On almost every project,” he emailed me recently, “I find people whose task can be perfectly explained by watching Office Space, the scene where the two Bobs interview Tom and he explains what he does.”… Read the rest “Mark Madsen’s three indications of uselessness”