Dilbert cartoon first published on Sunday 22nd May 1994

Dilbert//1863, first published 32 years ago on Sunday 22nd May 1994

Tags

project plan every resource task dependency road map two weeks tasks two weeks late dependencies are wrong estimates to be determined ransom numbers redo whole plan

Official transcript

"Let's spend the next four hours reviewing the project plan."

originally published on dilbert.com

Open source transcript

LET'S SPEND THE NEXT FOUR HOURS REVIEWING THE PROJECT PLAN I'VE DETAILED EVERY RESOURCE, TASK AND DEPENDENCY INTO AN EXQUISITELY ACCURATE ROAD MAP.

IT TOOK ME TWO WEEKS, BUT IT'S THE ONLY WAY TO MAKE SURE WE'RE NOT WASTING TIME MY TASKS ARE TWO WEEKS LATE BECAUSE I WAS WAITING FOR YOUR INPUT AND YOU LEFT OFF ONE TASK, SO ALL THE DEPENDENCIES ARE WRONG.

I'M CHANGING ALL OF MY ESTIMATES TO "TO BE DETERMINED." CAN WE DO THAT?!

I'VE BEEN USING RANDOM NUMBERS I'LL HAVE TO REDO THE WHOLE PLAN.

DON'T WORRY WE WON'T DO ANYTHING UNTIL WE HEAR FROM YOU 5 222

collated from github.com/jvarn/dilbert-archive

AI Analysis

Comic Strip Title: "Redoing the Whole Plan"

Summary:

The comic strip depicts a project manager's futile attempt to change the plan despite receiving a detailed resource, task, and dependency map from a subordinate. The manager's requests to modify the plan are met with resistance, as the subordinate has already spent four hours reviewing the project plan. The manager's insistence on redoing the whole plan is ultimately unsuccessful, and the subordinate's initial work is left unchanged.

generated by llama-3.2-11b-vision-instruct

Accompanying textual content, such as title, tags and transcripts, is shown here if we have it. Not every comic has all of these, and they seem to be a bit hit and miss even on the official website.