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Feel free to tell your boss that if your company sucks in programming and he/she is in charge of the programming dept that it is his/her fault because they are not: 1. Building the team and understanding the process. 2. Mentoring 3. Providing a system of metrics to gauge your performance as taught by Juran in his Quality Improvement in the Workforce seminars, which basically was the predecessor to the current six sigma movement. As a matter of fact, feel free to let the CEO or COO know that Virgil Bierschwale would be more then happy to come in there and show them how its done and guarantee that within 90 days the team would have their direction and within 180 days they would be producing world class software that the business stakeholders need, not what the IT side thinks they need because I would be the one meeting in person, one on one with each of the business stakeholders so that I felt their pain and could deliver solutions to their problems. Bottom line and even though others on here don't feel its true, if you're not managing the process, the process is managing you. Plan your work and work your plan. Give the team the direction that it needs, monitor them and mentor them and help them become all that they can be. Yeah I know... Shut up Virgil <grin> Seriously though, most developers spend all their time trying to learn the latest tool rather then using that old tool that they are familiar with and becoming an expert at putting it to work solving problems and most managers spend all their time putting out fires rather then delegating and building their team. In my opinion, the manager has only 2 tasks: 1. Understand specifically what the business is trying to accomplish 2. Build the team and the infrastructure to deliver on that need. Virgil Bierschwale http://www.VetsFIndingVets.org http://www.KeepAmericaAtWork.com -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Kurt Wendt Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2010 2:11 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [NF] FW: Immediate Need For - Quality Assurance Engineer An interesting background you have there. I see the QA reference on your KESU gig - and that's probably why they contacted you. But, it sucks how they depend on the programs to find the candidates (the program may be pretty good - but, it ain't great - as I hate it when they contact me for 3D graphics programming - only because I have programming on my resume - as well as work in 3D graphics - but, that's from the artistic end). Sorry to hear of your "fall from grace". Don't feel too bad. Our boss today tells a group of us in a meeting (QA Tech's and Programmers) - that our co. does great in processing outsourcing (we processed other co's data using our systems) - but that we SUCK in Programming! Now it's the biggest joke around the co. here - and all the Chinese programmers around me can't stop using Suck in almost every other word they say - except all the other words are Chinese - so I don't understand the rest... -K- -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Virgil Bierschwale Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2010 11:12 AM Long story, but probably a headhunter finding my resume somewhere. Here is my background: ...1984 - KESU Systems (electronic tech, promoted to QA Engineer, promoted to Document Control and Internal Auditor, promoted to Research and Development.. Talk about falling from grace <grin> Yep, I know what you mean... That's why I get a very big kick out of people who say that there are 2.3 million jobs available in America. Many seem to me to be double or triple postings by head hunters, not of the American variety. Of course, when you factor in that there are about 154 million taxpayers that work on a 1040 basis according to the IRS databooks and then you factor in 20 percent unemployment according to shadowstats.com, well 2.3 million jobs will do nothing when there are 30 million out of work. Virgil Bierschwale -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Kurt Wendt Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2010 9:47 AM Virgil - since you are on this list - and discuss VFP with the rest of us - I would be curious to know why they sent you this position to being with? It seems to me that it is NOT a programming job - and has nothing to do with VFP (although they didn't seem to state what language the system was being developed). Is this a headhunter you have worked with in the past? Or - is this one of those e-mails that come Out-of-the-Blue, because a headhunter found you resume since some keywords matched??? Just curious... As you probably already know - I am in NY (work in NYC - live on LI). But, I'm surely no QA Eng.! And - FYI - never got a response back from Colorado (hopefully, Virgil, you know what I mean without being really specific in this e-mail)... :-) -K- -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Virgil Bierschwale Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2010 7:45 AM I have no interest in going to new york, but perhaps somebody already up there would be interested, so I'm forwarding this. Virgil Bierschwale _____ From: Mona Dutta [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2010 3:44 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Immediate Need For - Quality Assurance Engineer Hi , I am contacting you to let you know that our END CLIENT is looking to interview and hire for a "Quality Assurance Engineer" and based on your skills/experience I wanted to STRONGLY encourage you to apply... [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/60f801cf0231449ab2b18b2221009...@stanpc ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. 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