Great Words Teddy!!! I will have to digest that for a while.... I do see that the quality between whats in my mind and what the developer eventually ends up with may be a big gray area that will have to be over come. But for now I am still learning how to communicate this. I realize that I need better flow charting skills and be able to delve into psudo code to help communicate.
Robert P. Reil Managing Director, Motorcyclecarbs.com, Inc. 4292 Country Garden Walk NW Kennesaw, Ga. 30152 Office 770-974-8851 Fax 770-974-8852 www.motorcyclecarbs.com <http://www.motorcyclecarbs.com/> _____ From: Teddy Payne [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 12, 2007 11:28 AM To: Carbs Sales&Service Subject: Re: [ACFUG Discuss] Learning curve vs best allocation of time vs money. Robert, If your goal is to be purely a business man, you will eventually seperate yourself from the technology and have a person or team handle this for you. As you are in the initial phases of this endeavor, you need to evaluate the time it takes to grow the business with technology versus the cost of the technology. If you spend 10 hrs per week for 10 weeks to get one technological deliverable, you will have have to wait for 10 weeks for growth. The real ability to grow is when you have your development working in paralell to the business goals. When the two coincide is when spurts of growth or growth oppurtunity occur. In your recent past and difficulty with your shopping cart choice, shrink wrapped solutions tend to be inflexible as they try and cater to a broad range of customers. There is no one product on the market for any one given requirement. Developers typically merge multiple solutions together to custom fit their clients. Eventually, you will have to work up towards having your own customized tool for managing your business. If you are the one to push technology, do you have anyone to help alleviate with business? If you are doing both, there is not much you can do until you have a way to delegate responsibilities based upon time versus growth. Corporate level developers are typically hoarded in their scope. A manager will buffer as much as he/she can to avoid the developer from not focusing on his/her forte. This is typically not possible in small to medium business. If your goal is to read the entire WACK, then that is your goal. Most CF developers do not read the WACK cover to cover. I see most of them tend to reference when they are trying to do something. We keep books, PDFs, blogs and technical websites as our many sources of ways to search how to do this widget and that widget. Over time, we reference less commont tasks. This is what I was referring to command line. If you do hire a full time developer, who will check his/her work? You will have to know enough to ensure that your requirements are met. Non-technical managers are a day to day challenge for developers. This is actually a trend that is slowing down. I have read reports that companies are expecting more of their C-level executives when it comes to technology. If he cannot read his email, how can he be in touch with his/her business? This is a lot to digest, but keep in mind that I have only covered an inkling over many topics. Most of the topics are also subjective, so you will have lots of different styles of management and experiences. You will need to choose what is the right choie for you. Teddy On 1/12/07, Robert Reil <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: Granted... But what about the fact that it takes lots of time to learn another way to do the same thing versus the time it takes to just navigate to the click. I am a business man working IN a business trying to find what precious little time I can to work ON the business, so that one day the BUSINESS can run the business. In my case I have to realize I do not want to become a professional programmer but gather enough skills to build tools that will generate income or save expences so that I can afford a professional programmer to do such work and that by that time I will be able to inteligently and effectively communicate with said programmer as to what we need to make the business run better. If you feel I am missing the mark please, please do advise. You guys know this stuff and the dynamics of corporations more than I. ------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list, manage your profile @ http://www.acfug.org?fa=login.edituserform <http://www.acfug.org?fa=login.edituserform> For more info, see http://www.acfug.org/mailinglists <http://www.acfug.org/mailinglists> Archive @ http://www.mail-archive.com/discussion%40acfug.org/ <http://www.mail-archive.com/discussion%40acfug.org/> List hosted by FusionLink <http://www.fusionlink.com> -------------------------------------------------------------
