Re: Standards and Egos (was RE: ILE Propoganda)

From: "Jim Franz" <jfranz@triad.rr.com>
To: <RPG400-L@midrange.com>
Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2001 9:20 AM
Subject: Re: Standards and Egos (was RE: ILE Propoganda)


> It's a territorial thing - the manager is a very lite programmer (rpgII),
> takes control of all specs,holds no department meetings, really doesn't
want
> us talking to each other, and really fears new ideas. Perfect example:
night
> processing & saves takes 3 hours, many sites are 24x7, Qinter is ended &
> users are off. Each nite job is "disconnected", so when one ends, next
only
> starts at appointed time. Wasted time is almost an hour.  I said"I can fix
> that so when one ends, the next starts". Well, my 6 month project is too
> precious to take a few hours to do this, and the night users are "used to
> waiting". Answer is No. (Also,
> previous contract person messed with nite process, and many mornings
qinter
> was still down and process halted.)

I dislike that when someone's failure is continually used as a factor for
not trying again. Imagine if we ditched every program that we were trying to
write if it didn't compile on the first try!

I think I'd only have 1 RPG program running. Not much to show for 20 years.

When you are building something new, of course you can have problems with
it. The big mistake made by your previous contract person was that they went
ahead and put those mistakes into live use.

> Not what you and I consider common sense. Would actually make her look
good
> to users, but if not her idea, it doesn't happen. Would love to see a
> satisfaction survey with the users. Problem is, since the users know the
> system as "the 400", their simplistic view is that it is a "bad" machine.

I sure have seen that too many times.

> (praying for new management)
> jim


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