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amateur vs pro
On Thu, 01 Apr 2010 12:48:37 -0700, Richard Clark
wrote: On Thu, 1 Apr 2010 10:56:44 -0700, "Joel Koltner" wrote: Software projects by "professionals" are quit all the time -- there's some shockingly low percentage of software projects that are ever actually finished (like, 25%). Even for hardware projects, at least for awhile Tektronix seemed to be quitting upwards of a quarter of all the projects they'd start. Usually a problem of poor specification. That is why we have "project Charters" The "Charter" describes the project goals and how to determine when those goals have been met. Any change in goals, or how to determine they have been met means going back and rewriting the charter and then having all involved reauthorized it. My standard replay when some one asked if we could do something with a project was "is it in the charter?". If not they had the option of getting the heads of all the involved departments and often "sites" to review the project charger. That usually minimized attempts to expand projects beyond their original design. It also give all involved the desire to put everything on the table at the beginning. :-)) You cannot design what is not described. Frequently, success is in the mind of the beholder: "Oh! I forgot to mention you need to....(gestures made here). You know what I mean." Yup, "did you include it in the charter?":-)) In other words, professionalism that fails to rise above rank amateur. I really don't see it in that light. To me there is no higher rank than amateur. A professional can just be a "grunt", or they can be some one with goals, or rather "goal oriented". 73 Roger (K8RI) My amateur designs are far more complete and robust than professional ones, but they are not commercial. They would take too long the first time (but they always could have been done in the time it had actually taken to get to shipping). Tracy Kidder's "Soul of a New Machine" proved how little so-called professional effort is needed to do a professional job right. I work with a lot of inventors/entrepreneurs whose idea-to-shipping time is measured in the single digits of weeks. 73's Richard Clark, KB7QHC |
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