Virgil - I do understand your points and your gripes - and to some extent I agree with many of your points.
But - understand - I MUST tread carefully as to what I write here - as this is my work e-mail account. We even brought up issues in the meeting - brought up by me and our main QA guy - that we are all here basically "spread to thin". And, that IS what is partially at the Heart of the matter here! Too few people - doing too much work - and rushing projects out the door - and not enough testing - well, Sh-t is Bound to happen and go wrong! Anyway - Virgil - you can respond to me offline at my other e-mail account: kwendt at ix dot netcom dot com Especially - considering your situation - I had a thought a few moments ago - and maybe we can "scratch each other's backs"! -K- -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Virgil Bierschwale Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2010 4:00 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [NF] FW: Immediate Need For - Quality Assurance Engineer Welcome to ChinAmerica, home of Pigeon Holed Resumes and the IndiAmerica overseer cracking the whip. 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 -----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... _______________________________________________ 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/289ea162f5642645b5cf64d624c66a14071a1...@us-ny-mail-002.waitex.net ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
