Introduction
PART ONE - COMMUNICATION BREAKDOWNS
Clicking 'Reply All' Wasn't Chaotic Enough
From a Two Page Report to a Sci-Fi Saga
50 Shades of Micromanagement
Monthly Power Point Power Challenge
Ctrl + Alt + Delete My Friday Night
'Do not tell anyone!' - Secret System Updates
The Most Expensive Way to Say 'Can you hear me'?
Jira Permission
Gremlin Olympic Games
Risk? What Risk?
Tiny A3 Charts Trigger Egos
War Dependencies, Drama And Digital Chaos
How We Accidentally Built the Same Project Twice
The Hard Truth About Communication
PART TWO - UNRESPONSIVE OR DIFFICULT TEAM MEMBERS
'Office Star' Shines too Bright
Dev Disappearing Game
Office Asshole
CEO's Best Friend
Grounding a Visionary CTO
PyCon or PyGone - Developer's Revenge
Lord of the Leaves - Return of the King of Excel
Sour SaaS Sandwich - Selling the Dream,
Delivering the Drama
Code Clean... but Everything Else Not So Much
The Brutal Truth About Difficult Team Member
PART THREE - PRIORITY CONFLICTS AND RESOURCE ALLOCATION
Projects PRIORITYpocalypse
The "Art of Delivering" Faster and Cheaper
Battle of the PMOs
Sydney Coffee Shuffle
Reporting Love Affair
Corporate Restructure Paralysis
Semiconductors and Sleepless Nights
Can We Buy More Story Points?
San Francisco Code Bug Battle
Business Said 'It Works fine' and IT Said 'We need to talk'
404: Career Path Not Found
It's Just a Small Change
The Raw Truth About Priorities
PART FOUR - LEADERSHIP AND DECISION-MAKING CHALLENGE
git commit -m 'We Regret Everything'
CEO's Special Task
Making No Decision Becomes the Worst Decision
Introducing the 'Piss-Off-Your-Customers' Plan Tragedy
CEO's Methodology Bingo: Scrum, Kanban and Whatever's Trending on LinkedIn
Mr. Commitment and the Land of Broken Promises
No Coffee no Code
Simple Math
Cache Me if You Can
Frontend vs Backend
The Naked Truth About Leadership
PART FIVE - VENDOR AND EXTERNAL STAKEHOLDER ISSUES
The COVID
Are You Talking to Me?
Muppet Show Came to QA Testing Strategy
From Vendor to Dictator
Platform 9 & 3/4 of Our Data
Salvador Dal's AI Revenge
Excel-lent Intentions Go Wrong
The Unvarnished Truth About Vendors
PART SIX - UNEXPECTED CRISES AND FIRE DRILLS
Too Secure To Work
Sticky Note Revolution
'Almost Done' And Other Project Management Lies
Leadership Said 'Later'
Amazon Integration War
The Day Procrastination Met Desperation
No Server No Cry
Silence Of The Coffee Beans
The Day We Almost Sold Printers Instead of Software
Cafeteria.exe Has Crashed
Caveman Executive Say "Agile Bad Magic'
Back to Office! Just Because We Said So'
Pure Truth About Crises
PART SEVEN - BUDGET AND TIMELINE ISSUES
What Budget Problem?!
Office Romance and Broken Hearts
Layoff Roulette
Approval Games
Somebody Said Fire Him
'Release Now'...Regret Later
Brutal Truth About Budgets
PART EIGHT - HOW TO DEAL WITH STRESS
Like a Woman, and Like a Boss - Karolina's reflection
Fight or flight but not as you know it - Daniel's reflection
Final Thoughts
Notes
