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You must look to your advantages to survive. Those off-shore programmers
are 'somewhat' removed from the daily workings at your shop. If you stay
at your desk from 8 to 5 and then go home, so are you. I once left a job
but stayed in the company golf league. About 1 year after leaving one of
the assembly foremen said to me at the first tee, "Hey, the 'new guy'
(one year into the job) found my office today! I didn't recognize him at
first! It was like meeting him at Meijer I didn't place him right away!"
That guy had absolutely no clue what went on in assembly, or machining,
or heat treat or.... He wasn't respected by his co-managers. At one
point he retired one of my programs ('It was too complex and hard to
maintain') and replaced it with a simpler one. The next morning he had
nearly every foreman in the place in his office because he had
quadrupled the effort required on the floor. 'Too bad, I can't afford to
spend the effort required to maintain that complicated program. Deal
with it." He didn't last long.
Use your proximity to your customer whether internal or external to
react more quickly, to see problems that need solving, to suggest
improvements. Know your customer, know his needs, know his problems. You
must decide if you are going to be Low Cost or High Value.
- Larry
Booth Martin wrote:
Well said, John, but add this: Those three $25K programmers are
energized. In 5 years they're going to be good, real good.
John Earl wrote:
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