Just because it can, doesn’t mean it should

Sun, 16 Aug 2026 00:00:03 +0000

In the early 2000s, my manager at the time handed me a Learning Tree catalog and asked whether any of the courses interested me because we had some training budget available. One of the courses I picked was about project management, not because I wanted to become a project manager, but because I wanted to better understand how projects are planned and managed.

The course instructor was a very entertaining and brilliant Scotsman. After all these years, I remember only two things from that course. The first was his introduction of the word “plonker”. It was not part of the syllabus, but the expression was thrown around so many times that it stuck with me, although I had to look it up to understand the term.

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Just because it can, doesn’t mean it should