I will second that..been there done that and was extremely ugly Sent from my iPad Scott Ford Senior Systems Engineer www.identityforge.com
On Feb 12, 2012, at 3:04 PM, Aled Hughes <aledlhug...@aol.com> wrote: > 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
