John Doty wrote: > On Jan 15, 2009, at 9:21 AM, Joerg wrote: > >> Thing is, my jobs aren't simple. > > They are simpler than you think. A team of specialists can take weeks > to do a 20 minute job. >
Most of my assignments are around 1/2 year, from spec discussions to finished design. The shortest one was 3-1/2 billed hours plus around 35 hours of flight time. Blew the client's mind when I called in same day and said it's fixed. They had assembled a Manhattan-style team to conquer the issue and then the department head did the right thing: "Dang, we'll blow too many manhours on this and it's urgent, let's call in a specialist and get it over with." Like him, I strongly believe in tapping consultants and specialists when needed. Else I wouldn't be a consultant ;-) >> I cannot possibly build a whole >> ultrasound machine or a complete aircraft all by myself. > > No, but remember that every big job is composed of a large number of > small jobs. Many of these small jobs cross specialization boundaries. > If you turn the small jobs into big jobs because *you* won't cross > such boundaries, the difficulty of the whole job blows up to enormous > proportions. > Why do you keep saying I won't cross lines? I do, almost every day. But I will never micro-manage or try to do everything myself when a person can be found who can do it better, or when we can save time that way. > The HETE-2 burst alert communication network cost 1/100 what NASA's > cost experts said it should. None of its designers was a > communication specialist. Go figure... > In a large organization that isn't really a surprise. Ok, but I think we should let this be for now, goes too far OT. -- Regards, Joerg http://www.analogconsultants.com/ _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user