Succinct and accurate. Thanks, Steve! I'm the last one that should complain about crossover skills - I've made a career of them. However I am inclined to get a little cranky when too many of them become core demands for junior positions. Familiarity is one thing, but as the old saying goes, "Jack of All Trades, Master of None". If it's a true polymath you want, you should be paying accordingly.
I realize that the popular thing to do is fire everybody but one person, make them do it all and then wonder while all those unemployed broke people out there don't buy your products/services, but we've got good evidence about the cost of "multi-tasking", just as we've got good data on the negative productivity that sets in when you work too long at a stretch and other attempts to get human beings to operate in ways that often don't even work that well when performed by machines. Effective human-resource usage aside, we've had 3 well-publicized security hits within a 48-hour period this last week alone. The Internet is a wild and dangerous place, and developing secure apps is something better not done as a side job by someone whose primary skills are elsewhere. As I've said before, just because you can give a Boy Scout a First Aid merit badge doesn't mean you want him to give you a liver transplant. Finally, any good accountant can tell you that putting too much responsibility in a single person's hands is a bad idea. Checks and balances. So, all things considered, I feel obliged to try and keep things realistic, if by no other means than getting all curmudgeonly about it. Tim On Tue, 2012-07-17 at 19:07 -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > On Tue, 17 Jul 2012 17:34:34 -0400, Mike Rathburn said: > > In this economic climate it's vital that developers have sysadmin > > knowledge and sysadmin's have development knowledge. I don't > > consider it a "nice to have", but rather a must for consideration. > > The dual knowledge alone gives some insight into the talent, > > personality and work ethic you're acquiring. It's the new norm, I > > believe. > > > > Thanks for posting the job. We need much more of this here and on the > > Facebook and LinkedIn JaxLUG groups, > > Hi Mike, > > I think Tim was bemoaning the general state of insane requirements, not > criticizing Shayne or Shayne's company. That's why he used the word > "another". > > And I fully agree with you that Shayne's posting of this job on the > list is a wonderful thing. An employed LUG is a happy LUG. GoLUG is a > much more fully-employed LUG than most, but even at GoLUG, we'd welcome > a job announcement for admin with Apache, Tomcat, Perl, PHP, Python, > Ruby, JavaScript, HTML/​HTML5, and CSS, virtual servers, MySQL, web > security, Agile, Continuous Integration. But just like Tim, yeah, we'd > bemoan requirements inflation and the fact that the "successful > candidate" would be a liar. > > Thanks > > SteveT > > Steve Litt * http://www.troubleshooters.com/ > * http://twitter.com/stevelitt > Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > Archive http://marc.info/?l=jaxlug-list&r=1&w=2 > RSS Feed http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml > Unsubscribe [email protected] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive http://marc.info/?l=jaxlug-list&r=1&w=2 RSS Feed http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml Unsubscribe [email protected]
