Re: Big Macs v The Naked Chef -- pitfalls of scaling consultancies

2001-01-20 Thread Robin Szemeti
On Sat, 20 Jan 2001, you wrote: > On Sat, Jan 20, 2001 at 08:01:51PM +, Chris Benson wrote: > > > Another link is > > > > http://www.arsdigita.com/careers/ > > > > They seem to be a very good model for a consultancy business > > Personally I wouldn't like to work anywhere that thinks lik

Re: Big Macs v The Naked Chef -- pitfalls of scaling consultancies

2001-01-20 Thread Paul Makepeace
From: "Robin Houston" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > http://www.arsdigita.com/asj/managing-software-engineers/ I particularly liked: "Your business success will depend on the extent to which programmers essentially live at your office. For this to be a common choice, your office had better be nicer tha

Re: Big Macs v The Naked Chef -- pitfalls of scaling consultancies

2001-01-20 Thread Robin Houston
On Sat, Jan 20, 2001 at 08:01:51PM +, Chris Benson wrote: > Another link is > > http://www.arsdigita.com/careers/ > > They seem to be a very good model for a consultancy business Personally I wouldn't like to work anywhere that thinks like this: http://www.arsdigita.com/asj/managing-so

Re: Big Macs v The Naked Chef -- pitfalls of scaling consultancies

2001-01-20 Thread Chris Benson
On Sat, Jan 20, 2001 at 12:52:58PM +, Leon Brocard wrote: > Paul Makepeace sent the following bits through the ether: > > > Y'all might find this excellent piece interesting, > > > > http://joel.editthispage.com/stories/storyReader$287 > > Pretty darn interesting. Fogcreek sounds like a pre

Re: Big Macs v The Naked Chef -- pitfalls of scaling consultancies

2001-01-20 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
Leon Brocard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Dave Hodgkinson sent the following bits through the ether: > > > Talk to Gunther. This is what Extropia tried to do. > > Hey, Gunther was talking about this kind of thing at Apachecon, He had some very good opinions on this. I wish I hadn't been so p

Re: Big Macs v The Naked Chef -- pitfalls of scaling consultancies

2001-01-20 Thread Leon Brocard
Dave Hodgkinson sent the following bits through the ether: > Talk to Gunther. This is what Extropia tried to do. Hey, Gunther was talking about this kind of thing at Apachecon, I just failed to remember until now... Which reminds me, everyone should read the book: http://www.extropia.com/Extropi

Re: Big Macs v The Naked Chef -- pitfalls of scaling consultancies

2001-01-20 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
Leon Brocard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Pretty darn interesting. Fogcreek sounds like a pretty cool place to > work. I'd suggest that if we were thinking of doing something similar > we'd need to build a product, or concentrate on a product or something > like that. Do a MySQL or an AxKit, and

Re: Big Macs v The Naked Chef -- pitfalls of scaling consultancies

2001-01-20 Thread Leon Brocard
Paul Makepeace sent the following bits through the ether: > Y'all might find this excellent piece interesting, > > http://joel.editthispage.com/stories/storyReader$287 Pretty darn interesting. Fogcreek sounds like a pretty cool place to work. I'd suggest that if we were thinking of doing someth

Re: Big Macs v The Naked Chef -- pitfalls of scaling consultancies

2001-01-20 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
"Paul Makepeace" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Y'all might find this excellent piece interesting, > > http://joel.editthispage.com/stories/storyReader$287 It's down to greed. I worked with a guy who easily filled his 200-odd day working year with 1k+ a day gigs (motivational speaker). But he so

Big Macs v The Naked Chef -- pitfalls of scaling consultancies

2001-01-19 Thread Paul Makepeace
Y'all might find this excellent piece interesting, http://joel.editthispage.com/stories/storyReader$287 Paul