Re: What counts as technically slick?

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From: Buck Calabro <Buck.Calabro@commsoft.net>
To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
Date: Thursday, April 05, 2001 5:11 PM
Subject: What counts as technically slick?


>company _not_ want the most technically competent programmers?  What makes
>lower standards a Good Thing?

Acceptance of M$ products...

>My view: As a programmer, my main product; _my value_ is that I produce
>programs.  The more skilled I am at producing programs, the more value I
>provide to my employer.  I fail to comprehend how settling for Good Enough
>increases or even maintains my skill level.


If I recall the discussion in question, it was about the employee having
skills other than just coding and the importance of them.

To be fair, they were actually not settling for "good enough", because "good
enough" would have entailed technical competence only. And the job (in the
view of the powers that be) actually requires more than JUST technical
competence.

There are some jobs where technical ability is all you need. There are
others (probably a majority) that require a mix of skills. If the mix is
important, then someone with a mix of those skills, while not necessarily
"outstanding" in any one particular skill, could be worth more to an
employer than the "mushroom coder".

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R. Bruce Hoffman, Jr.
 -- IBM Certified Specialist - AS/400 Administrator
 -- IBM Certified Specialist - RPG IV Developer

"America is the land that fought for freedom and then
  began passing laws to get rid of it."

     - Alfred E. Neuman



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