Cool. Does it say "Front toward Assailant" on it? Those with Army or Marine Corps service will know what I'm talking about.

Unfortunately, managers love the term "granularity" and have been using it as a cudgel. They've locked on to "Agile" programming and SCRUM project management as methods for driving this granularity into the development and test processes. They want tasks broken down to 15 minute increments and balk when any task takes more than a couple of hours to complete. All this so that they can achieve "visibility" and "predictability" for a given project, i.e. they get more status reports with pretty charts and graphs. I really despise the term "burn down" which springs from the whole thing as well.

Now, I may sound bitter about this but, I do understand that for all parties involved in a project, especially a large scale project; there needs to be an understanding of where team is at, where it's headed, and where the bottlenecks are located. This is not any easy problem to solve; it involves lots of guess work and dependency graphs that would make Euler weep. I suppose that's what makes it all the more irritating when managers think they have yet-another-silver-bullet for project management that they misuse causing more Maker frustration and possibly increasing the chance for failure rather than ameliorating it.

Sorry, end of rant.

I for one welcome our new Galactic Overlord.

From Hell's heart, I stab at thee!
For hate's sake, I spit my last breath at thee!

Priest: And thus spake the Great Devil Kahn at our saviour, The Kirk. Here endeth the lesson.

Congregation: More power to the engines!