There is a pithy description of what happens when a project goes wrong - ending with:
Hunt for the guilty,
Punishment of the innocent,
Reward for the uninvolved.
Some would add "Promotion for the guilty".
At a company award ceremony the "medals" were handed out with a reading of the commendation. One project manager was commended for pulling through two projects that had been failing. In fact he had been assigned to them far too late for him to have had any effect.
The woman next to me gasped and said "That was all my hard work!" - to which I added that the second one was similarly my work.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
