On Feb 12, 2012, at 1:22 AM, Edward Jaffe <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 2/11/2012 8:31 AM, Dave Day wrote: >> The idea of hiring temporary workers, the 'liquid' people referred to in the >> article, seems to me to be at odds with long term, successful growth. > > It's hard for me to understand how any serious development projects can be > done by temps. Software development is not a math problem. You can't just > throw "bodies" at it to get things done more quickly. You need a smallish > group of highly skilled people--the kind that usually have permanent > "gigs"--and time for them to learn the infrastructure and architecture before > they can be truly useful. Also, as with any complex subject, the learning > curves can be fairly steep. > > OTOH, perhaps the "projects" they're envisioning don't involve actual > development. Maybe they involve customization of OTS packages. No Ed, customization of OTS packages (generally a bad idea btw) has exactly the same talent requirements you're referring to; a smallish group of highly skilled people. The specific skills may be slightly different, but I know you would not have any trouble relating to them. The (evidently popular) idea that you can pick a random group of (cheap) gunslingers and solve big system or application development problems is as bankrupt today as it ever was. It only ever works on a spreadsheet. Lord spare us from MBAs. CC Sent from my iPad ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
