Alex is the general manager of Allied Software Corporation’s Tysons Corner, Virginia division office. His company develops large software systems for the defense department.
Alex has four program managers reporting to him, each with a program
worth between $3 and $6 million. Dave was one of those program managers. Recently hired, Dave wanted this job to work
out well. Dave’s team was made up of 15 system analysts and programmers working on a oneyear
program worth about $4 million. The program had a short turnaround time for a program of this magnitude and Dave felt that the deadlines were
almost impossible to meet. In fact, he was facing a critical deadline on Monday and it was Friday. They were already a week late. Moreover, some of the department computers were down for service and a few of his people didn’t seem familiar
enough with the programming skills needed to create this part of the software. Still, he needed this job to work for him so complaining to Alex was out of the question. Dave knew that some of his subordinates were very disgruntled about being
overlooked for the job Dave now held and they may take the opportunity to criticize him. Nine of the 15 department members
were old timers at the job while the remaining programmers were there only two years. The department was noted for being
good and while tensions ran high everyone seemed to work well together in a crunch. Dave knew he could count on his
team to meet deadlines, but did not know why they always had to be in crunch mode to get the group to work together. He
guessed this coming weekend would be one more crunch. Dave was fairly sure that Alex was not aware of the department
dynamics and he wanted to keep it that way least Alex think that he could not handle the job. He and the department would
just make the deadline work by putting in some long weekend hours.
Alex arrived at work one Monday morning at 8:00 a.m. By 8:01 a.m., every member of the finance department was lined up
outside his office complaining that someone had stolen all the computers right off their desks.
Robbery foremost in his mind, Alex searched the departments and by 8:15 a.m. he knew the answer. No robbery had
occurred. The computers were not taken from the building but just had been moved. All of the computers from the finance
department had been found on the desks of Dave’s engineering team. Alex instructed the financial staff to leave the
computers on the engineer’s desks for now, until he could figure out exactly what happened. The financial staff was
understandably ready to tar and feather Dave, but Alex was able to keep everybody calm until Dave came to work.
The first of his team to arrive, Dave came in at 8:30. Immediately upon his arrival Alex asked to see Dave in his office, alone.
“What the heck happened, Dave?” Alex did not yell it out, but he emphasized the word “What”.
Dave calmly explained that his team had promised the customer that specific work that was overdue would be in the
customer’s hands by Monday morning. The team decided the only way to get it done was to work through the weekend. By
Saturday afternoon they realized they were not going to get it done unless they had more computing power. So they took the
computers off the desks of the finance department. They worked through Sunday and late into Sunday night and delivered
the product to the customer very late Sunday night for its promised time, Monday morning. When they left late Sunday
evening they were just too tired to put the computers back on the desks of the financial staff. They just thought they would do
it in the morning. Dave assumed that the others would be there at the usual time of 7:45 to return the computers. He did not
think it necessary to leave a note.
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