On 13/12/06, Stuart Charlton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > --- Steve Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > +100 > > > > If you haven't read Mythical Man Month and the additional essays then > > you > > should get the hell out of IT IMO. Add in Death March to that as > > well. > > > > Thinking is the hardest part of software, coding is the simplest. > > Which is a true enough aphorism but could be mistakenly construed to > assume that coding doesn't involve thinking.
Completely agree... but there is a hell of alot of code out there that has been written without thought! > > There are environments where business people don't think enough, just > as there are environments where coders don't think enough. > > Both business and technology are hard, and they're quite intertwingled, > which is often why architectural debates take on familiar overtones of > "doing things right" vs. "doing the right thing". > > I'll note that Brooks advocated "The Surgical Team" because of the > drastic difference in productivity between people. As you've said > before, people matter most, but for some reason, it's either "yes we > know that, can't we get back to finding the silver bullet now?" or > "yes, but some matter more than others". :-) > > I unfortunately don't see too many businesses recognizing or applying > that principle, because it's not something you can program into a > business process very well, even though the hero CEO like a Jack Welch > spent much of his time on people decisions. I don't think this is > going to change en masse until there is wholesale rethinking in our > accounting and financial valuation standards to start recognizing > knowledge capital as the key productive resource in the global economy. The problem is that its really hard to sort the wheat from the chaff, paticularly the chaff that "look" good but can't actually walk the walk. Its the same in both business and IT, but IT probably suffers more from the people who pronounce more than they do. And I'm speaking as someone writing a 25 page powerpoint business plan! > > Cheers > Stu > > __________________________________________________________ > Any questions? Get answers on any topic at www.Answers.yahoo.com. Try it > now. >
