On Fri, 19 Jan 2001, you wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 19, 2001 at 05:04:54PM +0000, Piers Cawley wrote:
>
> > I'm *really* unsure about telecommuting. Seems to me that the way to
> > really build a team (especially when doing serious development) is to
> > have people in the same room;
>
> Plus there's too many distractions at home. Even if you live on your own.
> It's great to have the capability - for those evening brainwaves, or if
> you're ill - but doing it every day just doesn't work, at least for me.
it just requires a certain disipline. Some people can, some people can;t
perhaps you should think in terms of the Perl motto itself .. TMTOWTDI
If you;re the sort of person who needs the disipline imposed by turning
up and not being allowed out until home time then office working is for
you .. I can do it .. but I prefer not to.
team Building is a tricky business. to make a team work you need several
different sorts of people. I once worked for a guy who was a fastiious
documenter. over the years he'd assemebled a team of like individuals ...
who could have documented for nasa, but would never have come up with the
idea for a space shuttle if their lives depended on it.
theres a strong tendency to recruit people in your own image and this has
to be resisted if you are to be succesful. there is no such thing as the
'perfect consultant' .. you might have your own idea of what the perfect
consultant is .. establish a consultancy with 25 of em and I guarantee it
will fail. diversity is the key. this has been proven time and time
again, hard as it may be to believe you actually do need the idiot that
wanders around all day from desk to desk, and the unix wizard whos always
late, wears sandals and a CAMRA t shirt. assemble a team of squeeky clean
straight-A computer science graduates and you will not have the success
that you think would be assured. the converse is also true ... don't
build a team soley out of 'ideas people' ... they'll dream it up but
never finish it. The true test of team managment is to prevent the
different team roles from irritating the hell out of each other ;))
--
Robin Szemeti
The box said "requires windows 95 or better"
So I installed Linux!
