Lord spare us from MBAs. CC Amen, Chris!
-----Original Message----- From: Chris Craddock <crashlu...@gmail.com> To: IBM-MAIN <IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu> Sent: Sun, Feb 12, 2012 2:43 pm Subject: Re: IBM Doing Some Restructuring? On Feb 12, 2012, at 1:22 AM, Edward Jaffe <edja...@phoenixsoftware.com> wrote: > On 2/11/2012 8:31 AM, Dave Day wrote: > The idea of hiring temporary workers, the 'liquid' people referred to in the rticle, seems to me to be at odds with long term, successful growth. It's hard for me to understand how any serious development projects can be one by temps. Software development is not a math problem. You can't just throw bodies" at it to get things done more quickly. You need a smallish group of ighly skilled people--the kind that usually have permanent "gigs"--and time for hem to learn the infrastructure and architecture before they can be truly seful. Also, as with any complex subject, the learning curves can be fairly teep. OTOH, perhaps the "projects" they're envisioning don't involve actual evelopment. Maybe they involve customization of OTS packages. o Ed, customization of OTS packages (generally a bad idea btw) has exactly the ame talent requirements you're referring to; a smallish group of highly skilled eople. The specific skills may be slightly different, but I know you would not ave any trouble relating to them. The (evidently popular) idea that you can ick a random group of (cheap) gunslingers and solve big system or application evelopment problems is as bankrupt today as it ever was. It only ever works on spreadsheet. Lord spare us from MBAs. CC Sent from my iPad ---------------------------------------------------------------------- or IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, end email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
