Towards the Positioning in Ancient East

About a month ago I was on my vacation and spent several days in a city of Samarquand (Uzbekiston). There are many ancient buildings in the city, but currently I am concerned with two of them, one in front the other, and a fairy tale related to the buildings.

In XIV century, there was a great warlord Amir-Timur (AKA Tamerlan, or Timur-crop-legged). When he was going to his next war, he decided to build a new mosque (i.e. a muslim cathedral), since the old one was unable to house all believers. So he called his vizier (i.e. project manager) and ordered him to start the development while he is at the war.

Timur's wife, Hanum, was quite an active and modern woman (fro the XIV century) and said that she is bored waiting her husband from wars and asked him if he could develop her own building too. She decided to build a medrese (i.e. a muslim university). Eventually, she has got "OK" from her husband and started to build the medrese in front of the mosque, but about a half a year later.

Timur's PM has chosen quite straightforward approach to the development. They just grabbed enough slaves to populate the construction site and ordered them to work 24x7. Slaves worked for several hours, then got tired, then worked several hours more, then got more tired, then died. As soon as that had happened, more slaves was brought to replace the "retired".

Hanum was more clever at the project management. She split her slaves in two teams, one was working for 12 hours and then was replaced by another one. The overall speed og the construction was higher and the slaves were alive. Mostly.

That is, she had managed to outperform PM of her husband and after some time has passed the medrese was almost complete, while the mosque construction has a long road ahead. She was a perfect project manager (for the XIV century), but she knew nothing about the product management. In particular, she forgot about stakeholder management and positioning.

The most awful mistake was a bad positioning. That is, the entrance to the medrese was positioned higher than the entrance to the mosque, whick breaks some important muslim law. And, performing faster than PM of her husband, she forgot about who is the stakeholder.

When Timur had came back home... At first he was distressed that his PM was outperformed by his wife. Then he has noticed that the product of his wife has a bad position (see above) and got annoyed. Then he realized that there could be only one solution: to cut his PM head off and to punish his wife in not so cruel, but still unpleasand manner.

Thanks God we have such guys who do all the product management and sometimes help PMs to keep their heads on the shoulders. Even if some of them does not deserve that.

P.S. I will really appreciate if you help me to improve my English, since currently it sucks :-)