Nancy’s hard work derailing the idea is converted to fault checking and risk mitigation.Nancy let’s you build a quick version (which you know has faults because you’re being agile) while they wait with baited breath to bring on the pain.This should give you positive 3 outcomes where you had only a hit man and a shovel before. You can bet I got super creative and there are some people who are just damn well artists! Granted I was given functional specs of a design and confirmed those worked as expected, but the fun part was literally breaking the product on purpose. They want to find a problem at every corner, so let them. So we’ll come up with a basic design, John will do this, Jane will do that, and you Nancy…I want you to break it.” Alright Nancy is itching to add “Yeah but we don’t do magic, so …” so quick! Attack her/him with, “Okay.Establish that this conversation is the “Yeah but if by magic it had no problems, is it a good idea/design that will benefit us and thus worth exploring?” moment and get your answer.Now is the time for “But if it magically worked, is it a good idea?” So I have something for you to try. at the level Nancy is throwing doomsday at it. This is not the time to be talking about how and requirements etc. The problem here is that you’re pitching an idea in the “What if” stages. So what do you do? Stop pitching ideas altogether? Avoid Nancy or stop pitching ideas when they’re within earshot? Suggest to their team leader that they’re not a team player and perhaps we need to evaluate what they’re really bringing to the team? Organise a freak printer accident to sort the problem out on the sly? Repeat steps 3-5 ad infinitum (which in my case means I get bored of solving problems on the fly and just agree, then go build it anyway).įlying Spaghetti Monster have mercy on you if you’re not a patient man/woman.Nancy’s too quick on the draw for you with another.
#Archer negative nancy full#
If you’ve ever pitched a Service Improvement Plan or innovation idea, you’re probably familiar with one of the crappiest parts of the presentation and if not, then are you hiring? For the rest of us, there’s Nancy. She always wanted to use the full negative when printing a photograph.
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