Sounds like a fellow TOC fan? 

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf
Of Sean Stickle
Sent: Monday, January 16, 2006 7:14 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: [CFCDev] Free vs. Paid Training for CF frameworks WAS State of
Coldfusion UI Development

This makes  the assumption that you are the constraint in a production
system.

If you are not the constraint in the system, then spending additional money
on top of your salary is probably not justified. Better to take the four
weeks and learn Mach-II on your own.

You can't just take the hourly rate, multiply it by some hours and say that
that's the amount saved. Unless the company pays you less if you get
something done quicker (or unless you are the system constraint), there is
no real company savings.

If you *are* the system constraint, however, and training would make you
more productive faster, then it might be a fine investment.

The idea that there is some sort of absolute savings because you took less
time to learn something is flawed. It assumes a local optimization, whereas
global system optimization is what is really sought.

--Sean Stickle

-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf
Of Sean Corfield
Sent: Monday, January 16, 2006 6:55 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [CFCDev] Free vs. Paid Training for CF frameworks WAS State of
Coldfusion UI Development

On 1/15/06, Nando <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> "Would you like to learn Mach-II much more efficiently and easily, 
> from the guy who created it?"

Hal and Ben do a great four day training course that is well worth the
$2,500 (approx) that it costs.

Suppose you'd struggle for four or five weeks to figure out Mach II...
suppose the course gets you there in just that four days. You'd just saved
yourself three or four weeks of struggling (over $6,000 in productive income
@ $50/hr) for less than half that in cost. Sounds like value to me. That's
how you sell a training budget to your manager...
--
Sean A Corfield -- http://corfield.org/
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