Is this heaven or hell?
One ship needs 1 week to cross the ocean. How long does it take 2 ships?
If one woman can give birth to a baby in 9 months, then 9 women can do it in one month.
Heard that as an example of tasks that do not work in parallel in project management.
An engineer I worked with once yelled to a manager that “You can’t paint a toilet with ten people!”. I loved that guy, always had one-liners like these ready.
Reminds me of “when I was 6 my sister was half my age, now I’m 60. How old is my sister?” And the amount of people (myself included) that read it too fast and answered 30 was crazy
Project management sorting hat question.
Im an actuarie in an insurance company, and I share the table with the lawyers, everytime they ask me for help on something excel/math related I joke with them about how that’s the kind of thing that give flavor to life, seeing lawyers that tough math was useless and never had to used it, came to the realization that mathematics are everywhere and they can’t scape of it.
How many were going to St. Ives?