Re: Worst Recruitment Experience
On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 12:53, Smylers wrote: >> My worst recruitment experience ... This is a pretty entertaining story, http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/3990329/20-exec-axed-after-telling-jobseeker-off.html Paul
Re: Beware: NET-A-PORTER
On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 7:46 AM, Steve Mynott wrote: > On Fri, Dec 09, 2011 at 09:11:14AM -0500, Avleen Vig typed: > > > US salaries (use payroll expense) is much higher than in the UK. > > Where in London I would pay a programmer or sysadmin about £45k - £55k, > in > > New York I would pay at least $125k - $150k (about £78k - £93k). > > This sounds really great! > > Until you realise that it's pretty much a wash. > > What does the final line mean? It means that in the end being paid more in the US or less in the UK doesn't make a huge difference. Which isn't *entirely* true, but generally it is. If you're the kind of person who doesn't go out much, cooks at home a lot and is otherwise a low-spender, it can make a HUGE difference. But if you're young, single/a couple with no kids, like to buy big shiny things for you nice downtime residence, then it's about the same in both countries.
Re: Telecommuting
2011/12/9 Zbigniew Łukasiak > Recently I was surprised by the following (from a talk by Greg Wilson): > > Physical distance doesn’t affect post-release fault rates but Distance > in the organisational chart does. > > Nagappan et all (2007) and Bird et al (2009) > > Very interesting! And the irony is I received the first email in this chain while on a teleconference call to two developers in Ireland, a BA in London while on a train to Manchester. Our outsourced dev partners are in Ireland, London,Eastern Europe, and the US, the customers/colleagues I'm delivering to are all around the world. The daily Scrum we run has people participating who are in the office 2 or 3 days per week. It's all possible if you manage the process, use adequate communication tools and schedule effective meetings. Regards, Peter
Re: Telecommuting
On 9 Dec 2011, at 19:09, Zbigniew Łukasiak wrote: > Recently I was surprised by the following (from a talk by Greg Wilson): > > Physical distance doesn’t affect post-release fault rates but Distance > in the organisational chart does. > > Nagappan et all (2007) and Bird et al (2009) > > Based on all the data from building Windows Vista. An enormous volume of data. > > Searched for indicators of post release defect. > > This goes against claims for the need for co-location. > > Different managers with different goals has more impact than different > continents. > > > copied from a transcript: > http://softwareflow.wordpress.com/2011/11/10/greg-wilsons-what-we-actually-know-about-software-development/ Oh. That's interesting. Thanks! I'll have to track that down. Adrian
Re: Beware: NET-A-PORTER
On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 12:46, Steve Mynott wrote: >> Until you realise that it's pretty much a wash. > > What does the final line mean? Six of one, half a dozen of the other. http://www.usingenglish.com/forum/english-idioms-sayings/25582-call-wash.html Paul
Re: Beware: NET-A-PORTER
On Fri, Dec 09, 2011 at 09:11:14AM -0500, Avleen Vig typed: > US salaries (use payroll expense) is much higher than in the UK. > Where in London I would pay a programmer or sysadmin about £45k - £55k, in > New York I would pay at least $125k - $150k (about £78k - £93k). > This sounds really great! > Until you realise that it's pretty much a wash. What does the final line mean? -- Steve Mynott
