I thought ... Management would fire them all for under-performing, then expect one developer to do it all in half an hour :-)
Regards Paul McKenzie SMSS Ltd. Wellington New Zealand ----- Original Message ----- From: "Allan, Samuel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "NZ Borland Developers Group - Offtopic List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, October 12, 2004 2:33 PM Subject: RE: [DUG-Offtopic] Friday Question on a Tuesday... > I'd fire them all for under-performing, then do it all myself in half an > hour :-) > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Wilkin, Kurt > Sent: Tuesday, October 12 2004 2:11 p.m. > To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Offtopic List > Subject: [DUG-Offtopic] Friday Question on a Tuesday... > > > Kind of Virtual Super 12 but not: > > Given a respectably big client base and infinite development resource > (say, as a starter : Linus, RMS, Michael Chen, JWZ, Anders Hejlsberg, > James Gosling, John > Romero, Sergey or Larry, and an army of minions. Chuck in some > management too if you like, > say Joel Spolsky, Ballmer, Eric Schmidt). > How would you best structure your fantasy development team. > (To solve your fantasy client need.) > > - outsource everything (okay, the fantasy dev team worked at the > outsource) > - client by client teams > - according to infrastructure (say client (pretty much meaning web), > middleware, db, security, network) > - function (Customer Owners, Widget_A Owners, Widget_B owners, Service > Owners, availability Owners) > - by genius (the smartest guy gets to do what he wants, the next > smartest gets the pick of the rest) > - other, better way > > With attention to > - who should face the client : anyone (not RMS), account managers, > problem owners > - scalability : small to large and back to small again > - robustness > - management overhead (people, code, security, hardware) > - keeping (or not keeping) staff > > And without resorting to "Hey, you guys do what you want and I'll count > the money". > > Cheers, Kurt. > > _______________________________________________ > Offtopic mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://ns3.123.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/offtopic > > _______________________________________________ > Offtopic mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://ns3.123.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/offtopic _______________________________________________ Offtopic mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ns3.123.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/offtopic
