A manager I worked with said he standardised everything so work could be de-skilled & cheap staff used.Then the fun part was finding the experts who can be more productive if they deviate from the standard procedures. THis was a was non IT manager but the same applies for IT I think. I saw a report that showed that support of large windows apps was more expensive than anything else, this causes the movement to standardize. But it really applies to junior developers & users of apps. I worked at a place where every dev. PC was different, the staff were mostly beginners & making all PC's the same was beneficial. But we had the rule if your PC was non-standard you got bottom priority support, it was your choice. We were lenient with people we felt were learning fast so we shouldn't stifle their creativity.
--- "Chappell, Simon P" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Our management (I won't say leadership, for reasons that will be obvious to > experienced IS developers) also have the belief that standardisation is good. > We are having our J2EE workstations defined to the n'th degree and they will > all be locked down so that you can't change anything. You can't even change > your windows wallpaper!!! Our IDE is defined, you'd better like it because > you can't install anything else. All in the sacred name of productivity. > > Anyone else out there going through this or have advice to share? > > I am planning to bring my personal laptop to work to do any of my tinkering > on. I like to think that my tinkering is helpful to the company, but you > wouldn't think so from these new policies. This past year, I have introduced > to the company's IS environment four new tools that I evaluated by tinkering > with in those downtimes between projects. Specifically, these tools are > Struts (hey, you know I like Struts! :-), ant, junit and Cygwin. The funny > thing, to me, is that these tools evaluated by tinkering are going to be part > of the new locked down standard! Gotta laugh. > > Simon > > >-----Original Message----- > >From: Daniel H. F. e Silva [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > >Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2003 5:39 AM > >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Subject: [OT] Eclipse IDE - The Two Towers > > > > > >Hi all, > > I do appreciate all feedback posted here in this list. > > Well, i am only executing orders. I don't intend to obligate > >everybody to adopt my > >recomendations. > >My boss wants a standard environment to all developers. So, > >order is order. > > I think his concern about this task is to improve > >productivity. So, what is more productive? > > Following our discussion, does someone have experience > >writing Eclipse plugins? How difficult is > >this kind of task? > > > >Best regards, > > Daniel. > > > > > > > >__________________________________________________ > >Do you Yahoo!? > >Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. > >http://mailplus.yahoo.com > > > >-- > >To unsubscribe, e-mail: > ><mailto:struts-user->[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >For > >additional commands, > >e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > ===== ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Search the archive:- http://www.mail-archive.com/struts-user%40jakarta.apache.org/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Keith Bacon - Looking for struts work - South-East UK. phone UK 07960 011275 __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
