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Robert <no@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>On Thu, 20 Mar 2008 23:57:39 +0000 (UTC), docdwarf@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>In article <t995u3lods5e970rbvqrgnuqr0bl8ucu1i@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>Robert <no@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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[snip - attributions appear to have gotten mangled]
>>>The difference wasn't
>>>technology, it was IT
>>>management's refusal to change.
>>
>>It might have something to do with a given organisation's attitude
towards
>>risk and reward, Mr Norris. If errors are not tolerated - remember the
>>buzz-word phrase a decade or so back of 'We can't afford not to get it
>>right the first time'? - then the surest way to keep a job is to not
waste
>>money or time on things that might not work.
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>The surest way to lose an IT job is to use obsolete technology. It may
>not bite you this decade, but it will eventually.
It has been suggested, Mr Wagner, that a Fairly Sure Way to lose a job -
IT or otherwise - is to recommend solutions which may, in fact, work but
with which one's Cor****ate Superiors are unfamiliar or uncomfortable.
>>>Some managers welcome change. After my system went live last month,
they
>>>extended me six
>>>months to improve it. I'm now working on improvements like the above.
>>
>>I was contracted at my present site in November '03 for a project that
>>went live in May '05... I think I posted my Musings After Go-Live here.
>>There was, of course, a massive dismissing of consultants... and since
>>then there's been a steady leakage of personnel, folks retiring and not
>>getting replaced, other folks getting fed up with an eternal heaping-on
of
>>More Responsibilities and nobody (as far as I can see) getting hired on.
>>Meanwhile, the customer list continues to get larger (up about 25%, we
>>started with about 60,000, we're now at a hair under 75,000... and just
>>starting go-live on a new phase to bring in another 13,000 or so).
>
>I would think the risk is lack of scalability. 25% isn't much of an
increase.
One would not know that by the Management Milestones newsletters that get
circulated... but I think it was Twain who spoke of a chicken cackling as
though she'd laid an asteroid.
>My phase of
>the current project added fourteen million active customers. My previous
project for
>another company added a similar number. In both cases, the company added
a Big Unix box to
>handle the increase.
I offered my skills to the Oracle side of the house at one point... and
they were accepted, too... and then it was discovered that this would be a
violation of a contract they held with the Anderoids.... errrr,
Accenture... and so, back to the Big Iron for me.
DD
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