RE: Standards and Egos (was RE: ILE Propaganda)

Hi,
it is for sure not the first time, that anyone encounters such environments,
born and maintained in times
long ago and where decisions have been avoided since long.
However, under my point of view, where I have had to deal with similar
situations, there two points to put
standards in place:

1. Elaborate these standards
2. Apply them to any new programme etc.
3. Any change which is to take place necessarily will have those standards
now implicit.
4. Establish a timeframe and budget to change/replace structure wise the
remaining items one by one.
5. Clean up your own house
6. Implement a change management system 

After you have started, you should try to to enthuse other people from those
different countries to offer them
a return benefit in change of co-operation. 
By experience, they will accept that, even you may encounter there still
people not willinng to co-operate.
If you then can extend your plan and activities, you are on the right way,
hard but with success.

Have a good day,
Joachim Aschauer
SAP development Support, Walldorf(Germany)

-----Original Message-----
From: Peter.Colpaert@honda-eu.com [mailto:Peter.Colpaert@honda-eu.com]
Sent: Dienstag, 26. Juni 2001 09:38
To: RPG400-L@midrange.com
Subject: RE: Standards and Egos (was RE: ILE Propaganda)




Trivial decisions...

I've heard of them, but that was a long time ago.

I have tried implementing a 'standard' in the environment where I work now,
but
that's nearly impossible, since the application is used in 10 different
countries, each with their own local modifications.

Moreover, the application itself (if you can call it an application, I like
to
refer to it as the junkyard) consists of RPG II programs in S36 procedures
(yuck), RPG 3 programs with cycle logic, internally described files, level
breaks and all that nice stuff, RPG/400 programs with externally described
everything (except printer files of course, who needs external printer
files?)
and even some ILE-esque programs written with an RPG 4 skeleton nobody
understands since the programmer who pronounced it 'the new standard' was
fired.

Even something as trivial as whether or not the Enter key is used to proceed
to
the next screen is not the same in every program.

So how do they expect us to use standards in such an environment?

Just my two Euro-cents.

Peter Colpaert
Analyst-Programmer
Honda Europe NV
Langerbruggestraat 104
B-9000 Gent (Belgium)

Peter.Colpaert@honda-eu.com
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"Bartell, Aaron L. (TC)" <ALBartell@taylorcorp.com> on 25/06/2001 22:21:27

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But even trivial decisions can save a ton of time in the end and can be
considered a tool.  If I code completely different than what everybody else
is used to and then they have to come and modify my program, they are going
to have a heck of a lot of time to put into that program.  Especially if
they are used to all of the indicators being different and naming
conventions are different.

Aaron Bartell





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