I generally agree that most programmers just want to get the job done as fast and easily as possible. And get really torqued at "administrivia" or PHBs telling them exactly how to do their job. Then, again, I've know a few who were totally numb above the waist and wanted to do things exactly the same way they did 35 years ago. Most managers that I've had the misfortune to actually hear from directly want "some way to do it in order to get measurable, scientific metrics like they do in manufacturing." Some day we might actually get to that point. How advanced would computers be today if the same management techniques had been in place from day one?
On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 12:14 PM, Ted MacNEIL <[email protected]> wrote: > >I don't want to sound insulting, but there is an old saying that progress > is made by the dissatisfied (and possibly mentally unstable > > If the programmers are performing handstands and unnatural acts to bypass > processes to get their job done, there's something wrong with the process! > > Fix that and you won't find these 'acts of disobedience'. > > Just ordering them to follow a bad process is a waste of scarce > productivity time. > > If you make it easy to use, they'll use it. > - > Ted MacNEIL > [email protected] > Twitter: @TedMacNEIL > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- This is a test of the Emergency Broadcast System. If this had been an actual emergency, do you really think we'd stick around to tell you? Maranatha! <>< John McKown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
