> I'm not quite sure where all this business school speak is > coming from exactly, but you seriously need to update your > research. You're applying all sorts of arguments to a field > in which it's been proven time and again that this sort of > logic simply doesn't apply. Read anything by Tom Demarco for > a good start. > > Bottom line in my mind is that if I worked for an employer > who didn't see training as a good thing, I'd find a new > employer. Sure we can learn quite a bit on our own as > developers and should be doing some of that every day, but > the occasional formal training course can kickstart our > knowledge in ways that messing around with things on our own > just can't.
I think you're misinterpreting what Mr. Stickle wrote. He's simply arguing that sending programmers to instructor-led training doesn't necessarily save a company money by allowing developers to be more productive. The key word in that sentence is "necessarily". For what it's worth, I agree with him. However, there are plenty of other reasons why training is a worthwhile investment for companies, such as employee retention, better code quality, etc. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ Fig Leaf Software provides the highest caliber vendor-authorized instruction at our training centers in Washington DC, Atlanta, Chicago, Baltimore, Northern Virginia, or on-site at your location. Visit http://training.figleaf.com/ for more information! ---------------------------------------------------------- You are subscribed to cfcdev. To unsubscribe, send an email to [email protected] with the words 'unsubscribe cfcdev' as the subject of the email. CFCDev is run by CFCZone (www.cfczone.org) and supported by CFXHosting (www.cfxhosting.com). An archive of the CFCDev list is available at www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]
