Comments on: Action stations! http://jfw.id.au/2005/09/12/action-stations/ the mutterings of a part time nutcase. Sun, 20 May 2012 08:14:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Alistair http://jfw.id.au/2005/09/12/action-stations/comment-page-1/#comment-30 Alistair Mon, 12 Sep 2005 11:59:27 +0000 http://jfw.id.au/2005/09/12/action-stations/#comment-30 I think the other thing in our favour at the moment is the excellent progress that hi is making. Being the first seious piece of software being written, its got all the makings for being an excellent case study for doing things 'the right way' - not the wrong. To think in a single foul swoop we've gone from, what is largely procedural .net to a fully tiered, abstracted application is just awesome in my opinion. What would have been awesome, is if hi was under similar load to the cres. I honestly think that hi would haul serious arse if it was under the hammer. I guess it'll only be a matter of time before the next application is under similar load. I think the other thing in our favour at the moment is the excellent progress that hi is making. Being the first seious piece of software being written, its got all the makings for being an excellent case study for doing things ‘the right way’ - not the wrong.

To think in a single foul swoop we’ve gone from, what is largely procedural .net to a fully tiered, abstracted application is just awesome in my opinion.

What would have been awesome, is if hi was under similar load to the cres. I honestly think that hi would haul serious arse if it was under the hammer. I guess it’ll only be a matter of time before the next application is under similar load.

]]> By: Liam http://jfw.id.au/2005/09/12/action-stations/comment-page-1/#comment-29 Liam Mon, 12 Sep 2005 05:30:09 +0000 http://jfw.id.au/2005/09/12/action-stations/#comment-29 I know what you mean, this is v true and especially in there. The unfortunate thing is, its not easy to change that view. As the rest of the company's performance really can be judged by things like the following Number of emails responded to Number of sales made Number of phone calls answered Even the number of bills paid (for accounts) IT is really their ownly "knowledge worker" environment, its very different from the rest of the company, and hence they struggle to understand it. As such its hard for them to understand that the number of lines written is completely incorrect for judging a programmer's performance. The good thing is though, you now have a strong IT manager with a good understanding of IT and especially software development. I know what you mean, this is v true and especially in there.

The unfortunate thing is, its not easy to change that view. As the rest of the company’s performance really can be judged by things like the following

Number of emails responded to
Number of sales made
Number of phone calls answered
Even the number of bills paid (for accounts)

IT is really their ownly “knowledge worker” environment, its very different from the rest of the company, and hence they struggle to understand it. As such its hard for them to understand that the number of lines written is completely incorrect for judging a programmer’s performance.

The good thing is though, you now have a strong IT manager with a good understanding of IT and especially software development.

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