|
Well said, Brad...! (Worth reposting, IMV.) | -----Original Message----- | From: midrange-l-admin@midrange.com | [mailto:midrange-l-admin@midrange.com]On Behalf Of Brad Stone | Sent: Friday, December 07, 2001 9:35 AM | To: midrange-l@midrange.com | Subject: Re: "One person per product" | | | Just a few comments... | | > I found an interesting article by an IBM researcher on | > programmer | > productivity; his message is that a two-minute telephone | > call really takes | > 17 minutes: two minutes for the call and 15 minutes to | > get all the mental | > plates spinning again. | | Let me ask you this. Have any of your programmers every | told you this? Phone calls, interuptions of any kind? I | can't believe you haven't heard this or said it yourself | sometime in your career. | | "I need to be left alone for 3 days... every time you come | in and ask me 'Is the project done yet?' it throws me back | 20 minutes or more... and unplug my phone too, please! I | will let YOU know when it's done." | | It seems it takes someone from IBM, or some other | "reasearcher" to tell us things our programming staff has | been telling us for eons! | | > This makes you wonder about the | > efficacy of | > programmers in cubicles and the concept of the open | > office; I guess the | > solution is to provide a couple of private phone-less | > mini-offices with | > doors and PC's with development tools only, a coder would | > take residence to | > get privacy and productivity. | | That would be cool. I'd do that. I still miss the hum of | the computer room. Cubicles just didn't do it for me that | much. The cold air of a good computer room, and the | constant hum of fans downing out any outside noise.... | | > Our AS/400 side is | > all written | > by one person (the best in town, at least), who is happy | > to tell | > me 'no you can't do it THAT way.' | > | > God bless him. | | My goodness! You should go touring the country telling IT | teams and management then when you have one of these gifted | team members, than when he says that you should listen, and | not get all defensive. | | People are just too thinned skinned these days I guess. I'm | happy to see you don't take "you can't do it THAT way" as | him trying to hurt yours or someone else's feelings, or call | them "dumb", etc... | | Brad | www.bvstools.com
As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases.
This mailing list archive is Copyright 1997-2024 by midrange.com and David Gibbs as a compilation work. Use of the archive is restricted to research of a business or technical nature. Any other uses are prohibited. Full details are available on our policy page. If you have questions about this, please contact [javascript protected email address].
Operating expenses for this site are earned using the Amazon Associate program and Google Adsense.