> There is a big misunderstanding in this thread. You don't have to > persuade __me__ - I'm just impersonating the average employer out > there
I must admit I don't like the employer you are impersonating, but in the same way I must say it is sadly similar to some situations I experienced during my working life in Italy. I wonder if the same happens with the same frequency in other possibly more technology savvy places like USA or northern Europe. > I've found myself teaching and mentoring better > development processes in some large corporates.The thing turned out to > be interesting, and exciting, for some groups of people. Usually the > thing first grows a lot, with people eager to learn and apply the new > things; and after some months it gets killed by a upper level manager, > because other groups are just disturbed by the perturbation of the > usual grey job, where nothing works but in the end nobody has got a > clear responsibility of a failure. That's how medium / large > corporates operate, in my experience. Of course, people can fly away, > but realities where people work well are a tiny fraction of the whole > world. That's life. I am afraid I couldn't resist a lot in a working environment as the one you described. Realities like these are condemned to have only mediocre developers. Anyway I agree on the fact that people working in small companies are often more open minded. Leaving outside Scala, I am glad to say that in my company we are quite free to experiment new libraries, frameworks and solutions. And we also try to share these new experiences as often as possible. For example once a week we have an half-an-hour meeting were a member of my team explains to the others in a very informal way the new things he experimented in the last period. Since there is a dozen people in my team, it means that about once a quarter everybody talks in a meeting like this. That has the double advantage of sharing the knowledge in the team and make people more used to present in public. In the end, despite I believe your analysis is more realistic than pessimistic, I also think that with a little effort (and practically with no cost) is possible to make your working life more stimulant and interesting. Innovation is not a luxury. And having smart people working in an environment able to innovate is a win-win situation for both the employer and the employees. Do you think it is so difficult to "sell" my analysis to an averagely wise manager/employer? Bye, Mario -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to javapo...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to javaposse+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
