Re: OT: Working from home

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  > So we all lied a lot. And this was "sitting at our desks"
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<rant>
That IMHO is the main flaw of all these new management techniques and "metrics" being pushed by methodology reps. They are very good when dealing with coal face workers. They haven't got a chance in hell of accurately representing working patterns when dealing with a technical job. Most of them are extrapolated from factory environments, where the amount of work is easy to measure in terms of units/hour. Since none of them even make an effort at defining what's a unit of work for a DBA or a designer or an "architect" or even an analyst, they fail miserably in properly tracking this type of job.

Result? Totally incorrect project metrics and cost extrapolations. Corollary? Make these jobs disappear because of their "inconvenience" in fitting a flawed model. Not fix the model.

And they wonder why projects can easily "fail"? They can't even accurately define "failure" nowadays!
</rant>

Cheers
Nuno Souto
nsouto_at_nsw.bigpond.net.au
http://www.users.bigpond.net.au/the_Den

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