[lug] Every day, really.

[Nate Duehr]

On Aug 29, 2008, at 8:32 AM, Jeffrey Haemer wrote:

> http://blip.tv/file/1061088


Interesting commentary on how badly businesses and their leadership  
don't know how to manage -- gosh, their businesses, I guess.  Since  
technology and software are supposed to have a net INCREASE in  
performance, either saving the company money or creating it.

If they can't measure that, they're hosed... "requirements changing"  
is often a sign of this.  "What do we want it to do?" -- Should be an  
easy question... next is "Okay, how much will that cost?"  If it costs  
more than it's worth, don't do it.  Anyone with a household budget can  
figure this out, it doesn't take an MBA from Harvard.

Seems like "hug a developer" should be, "help a developer escape from  
poorly run businesses".

Not sure how you accomplish that one, though.  Other than perhaps  
hoping that the bad software businesses finally just die off.  That  
may not be much of a "help" to the developers employed there in the  
short-term, however.

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Nate Duehr
nate at natetech.com