The Boss says, "As lead software engineer, I give you the first unit of our ten thousand copy production run." Dilbert says, "Wow! I wish we'd designed it with the features listed on the box. That would have been awesome." The Boss says, "What?" Dilbert says, "I'll put this with the other reminders of…
The Boss says, "We need to get our customers more involved in the productdesign cycle." Dilbert says, "We only have customers who are too dumb to check product reviews online." The Boss says, "Do it anyway." Customer says, "Can it wear a hat like a monkey?" Dilbert says, "For the millionth time, software…
Dilbert says, "Welcome to another round of 'If we had money.' I'll go first." Dilbert says, "If we had money, we could design and test new products." Asok says, "We could go to training." Dilbert says, "You forgot to say, 'If we had money'!"
Dilbert says, "And I need you to design a logo for our prototype." A man says, "We don't do that. We're the graphics support department. Talk to the graphics production department." Dilbert says, "They create logos?" The man says, "No, they tell people we do it."
"I changed the productdesign." "It's worse than the old design." "You asked me to come up with a new design." "I meant a new design that's better than the old design." "Great. You could have told me that before I did all this work." "How do you think this makes me feel?" "No one would blame me for hating…
…design skills by creating concept cars that will never go into production." "Then they prove their management skills by producing cars that are less attractive than corrective underpants." "Tomorrow we're holding a press conference to show the world our own concept product." "Our concept product can…
