Sean, You may be the entire reason I'm on this list.
- Seth -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sean Corfield Sent: Monday, January 16, 2006 5:04 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [CFCDev] Free vs. Paid Training for CF frameworks WAS State of Coldfusion UI Development On 1/16/06, Sean Stickle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You see how you say "why waste the time if you don't have to?" If you're > not the system constraint, then the manager should rightly ask "why > waste the money if we don't have to?" That would be a pretty stupid manager then. That's saying "I don't mind my developers costing me over $6,000 to learn something that I could send them on a course to learn for just $2,500!" - it has nothing to do with bottlenecks or constraints and everything to do with plain ol' efficiency and sensible budgeting... > Pursuing individual developer > efficiency is a typical goal, but it is not the right goal for a > company. The company should optimize the whole system efficiency. So send the whole damn team on the course! > Sometimes you > want people in a manufacturing plant sitting around reading the paper > rather than working, because if they are more efficient, the whole > system suffers. You've got to be a troll with a response like that... You want to pay people to do nothing??? > And sometimes, it's better to take four weeks to learn a > new framework and learn it only well enough to use it so that it works, > rather than learn it in four days and learn it deeply. So you'd rather have a team of people bumbling along making mistakes and paying them lots and lots of money to get a half-assed product out the door when you could have spent less, got something better and got it quicker? -- Sean A Corfield -- http://corfield.org/ Got frameworks? "If you're not annoying somebody, you're not really alive." -- Margaret Atwood ---------------------------------------------------------- You are subscribed to cfcdev. To unsubscribe, send an email to [email protected] with the words 'unsubscribe cfcdev' as the subject of the email. CFCDev is run by CFCZone (www.cfczone.org) and supported by CFXHosting (www.cfxhosting.com). An archive of the CFCDev list is available at www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] ---------------------------------------------------------- You are subscribed to cfcdev. To unsubscribe, send an email to [email protected] with the words 'unsubscribe cfcdev' as the subject of the email. CFCDev is run by CFCZone (www.cfczone.org) and supported by CFXHosting (www.cfxhosting.com). An archive of the CFCDev list is available at www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]
