In this post I posed the following question:

Once is luck,

Twice is coincidence,

Three times is a charm,

What is four times?

The clues I gave to the correct answer were that it was work related, I came up with this in a business meeting and that the answer could be gleaned from my previous posts about work. The correct answer is "Four times is a process".

I was hired here as a QA Specialist and the vast bulk of my first months was spent designing and implementing processes for Development. For the last month I've been designing and implementing processes for Project Management as well as taking on my own Business Analysis and Project Management tasks. I came up with this little saying during a meeting on those processes to make a point that it isn't enough to say what we are going to do and how we are going to do it. We actually have to DO IT like that and we can't consider it a success process until it has been verified by actual repetitive successes.

If anybody has any experience with change management (getting people to do something differently than they have been) you probably have a fair idea of how difficult it can be to get people to "follow the plan". It's where the term "herding cats" comes from.

Anyway, there were some great guesses and points shall be awarded!

Third Place (1 point): vw bug
Four times is... one partner too many.

Second Place (3 points): Oorgo
Four times is... repetitious.

First Place (5 points): shank
Four times is... the fine line between persistence and harrasment.

And a bonus point each for the folks who tried to find the business angle:

vw bug for ...only good for brainstorming.

knpepper for ...a project plan complete with willing project sponsor;
a real budget with real money; and real target audiences.

Wendy for ...a contract.

Helen for ...a promotion.

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1 Oh I won! First Place! You really LOOOOVE me don't you? Oh joyful day!

Posted by: shank at April 22, 2005 09:24 AM (+H1yK)

2 "Cheating" isn't a business angle?

Posted by: Victor at April 22, 2005 10:14 AM (L3qPK)

3 Yipee! Someone else likes my odd sense of humor. ;-)

Posted by: vw bug at April 25, 2005 08:08 AM (FTNvS)

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The aftereffects of SnoozeBob Day will last for months. Or weeks maybe. Days? Okay, the aftereffects pretty much fizzled away mere moments after SnoozeBob Day ended.

But the points remain!

Here are the points awarded for the many guest posts:

1 point for Most painfully honest post goes to Lovely Wife for "Have I?"

2 points for Most blatant link whorage goes to Rob for "Do I still have time?"

3 points for Best impersonation of one of Jim's posts goes to pylorns for "Movie Quotes Time"

1 point for Post exposing the truth about French culture goes to Rob for "Because I always do as Jim orders"

2 points for Funniest depressing post goes to shank for "While the Cat's Away..."

-1 point for Post causing Jim the most real pain goes to dafyd for "Annoying German Pop"

1 point for Best combination of high tech and reprodutive organs goes to Dave for "C'est l'Oorgo, oui!"

5 points for Post exposing the most mangina goes to diamond dave for "Always wanted to ask this..."

My thanks to all of the guest posters!

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1 Yay with the pointage and the prestige of being the biggest whore on SBD!

Posted by: Rob at April 22, 2005 06:17 AM (kXZI6)

2 You suck.........ONE lousy point!;-P

Posted by: LW at April 22, 2005 02:40 PM (MDLz3)

3 Tsk tsk... 5 points for Mr. Mangina and only 1 for the Lovely Wife? Awwww, I'm touched Actually, I tend to get more votes as a wienie than a pussy...

Posted by: diamond dave at April 22, 2005 04:42 PM (DqtzB)

4 Nooo... my points, my beautiful points

Posted by: Dafyd at April 23, 2005 04:45 AM (vvjtG)

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Update: Thanks for playing! SnoozeBob is back in his cage.

I'm off to Denver today so I've brought Snoozebob out to play!

Snoozebob comes around when I am especially lazy am so burdened by other committments that I can't attend to my normal bloggish duties and he throws the doors open for y'all to abuse the Snooze guest post. It's easy as pie. Just go here and log in with username and password "snoozebob".

The door will be open until tomorrow morning. You can post just about whatever you want as long as it isn't spammy or overtly francophilish. There are a couple of things to remember though:

1. Don't do something so stupid that I or one of my proctors will have to ban your ass.


2. Put your name in there so we know who wrote what. In the title is the best place, as a header or in closing work too.


3. If you have a blog don't forget to whore it out here include a link.


4. For the category, please choose "SnoozeBob".

Enjoy!

(This post will stay at the top as long as open posting is enabled.)

POINTS: When I close guest posting I'll hand out some points based on which posts I thought were the funniest/most meaningful/bestest. It might be in categories or an overall list - not sure at the moment.

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Number of posts in my aggregator after wiping out the ones from a couple blogs I'm probably going to drop because I just can't keep up with all of the blogs on my blogroll any more.

Maybe I'll move 'em out to an "On deck" blogroll.

(And no, if you are reading this I can just about guarantee that it's not your blog I'm talking about. Relax already.)

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1 Just think-you'll be able to claim that Hooked on Phonics made you a faster reader! PS-thanks for the paranoia-smasher footnote you added. I felt my blood pressure go up before reading it.

Posted by: Helen at April 15, 2005 08:46 AM (Oxw5k)

2 And no, if you are reading this I can just about guarantee that it's not your blog I'm talking about. Oh, but it could be me. Yes, it could. And if it isn't, I think you should dump me regardless, on account of how scoldy I am.

Posted by: ilyka at April 15, 2005 09:07 PM (7NoCM)

3 But I like Scoldy. That's my second favorite dwarf, after Stabby.

Posted by: Jim at April 15, 2005 09:51 PM (MDLz3)

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Going to UGA today, busy weekend, will be in Chicago Monday and Tuesday.

See y'all Wednesday.

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Thought I forgot all about updating for this one, didn't you? Well, you were right. But fortunately Outlook didn't forget and successfully pestered me into doing it today.

The Points board is current for everything that's closed and there's still one contest post open for those looking to increase their totals.

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1 I'll byte. Which contest is open? I did some searching and must just be blind.

Posted by: vw bug at April 01, 2005 04:28 PM (rhlNH)

2 This one!

Posted by: Jim at April 04, 2005 09:51 AM (tyQ8y)

3 Damn, I missed that post. Oh well next time.

Posted by: pylorns at April 04, 2005 10:16 AM (FTYER)

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