> In this vein, the most successful software companies (e.g. Apple, > Google, Microsoft, etc.) have had many articles written - over the > years - about the games their developers play during office hours, > their toys and gadgets, and their private projects and the like. > Somehow they seem to have managed perfectly well without timekeepers > and stop-watches measuring their every move.
They have also radically different business models based on the sale of software/hardware products or advertising to large groups of people. They also have billions in the bank and are at their core, engineering companies founded by software engineers. This particular circumstance was a company submitting time and materials based time sheets to an external stakeholders for payment of monthly invoices. They demanded evidentiary proof, Spherical was a mechanism to do this. I fundamentally don't believe that minute watching and timekeeping is appropriate for development staff, I prefer (And generally do) manage by outcomes. However commercial reality often gets in the way of idealism. See, the one thing I've learned is that the suitability of any solution is based on the circumstances of the actual problem. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
