Amen Ed, one word, mis-management dude to lack skill or knowledge Sent from my iPad Scott Ford Senior Systems Engineer www.identityforge.com
On Feb 12, 2012, at 2:22 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? > > -- > Edward E Jaffe > Phoenix Software International, Inc > 831 Parkview Drive North > El Segundo, CA 90245 > 310-338-0400 x318 > [email protected] > http://www.phoenixsoftware.com/ > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
