home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Path: sparky!uunet!sun-barr!male.EBay.Sun.COM!exodus.Eng.Sun.COM!appserv.Eng.Sun.COM!appserv!khb
- From: khb@chiba.Eng.Sun.COM (Keith Bierman fpgroup)
- Newsgroups: comp.arch
- Subject: Re: Computer architects forced to change careers. NOT!
- Date: 10 Sep 92 19:25:55
- Organization: Sun MegaSystems
- Lines: 33
- Message-ID: <KHB.92Sep10192555@chiba.Eng.Sun.COM>
- References: <1992Sep9.061933.28304@news.eng.convex.com> <1992Sep9.213319.7894@fasttech.uucp> <1992Sep10.194733.8001@boole.uucp>
- NNTP-Posting-Host: chiba
- In-reply-to: John@boole.uucp's message of Thu, 10 Sep 1992 19:47:33 GMT
-
-
- In article <1992Sep10.194733.8001@boole.uucp> John@boole.uucp (John Ahlstrom) writes:
-
-
- > The concept of reward for a job well done and punishment for an abject
- > failure doesn't exist in many high-technology companies.
-
- Reward for well done exists in all the successful ones I know.
- Never as much as I think is deserved, sometimes not even enough
- to keep the well doers there it is true. If you punish for
- failure you are likely to discourage trying hard things.
-
- The Punishment should Fit the Crime (not be nonexistant).
-
- If the Crime is an ontime quality implementation of the wrong product
- ... the Architect is not really the one who should be flogged (unless
- they were also the head of the strategic Marketing team ;>).
-
- If the Crime is failure to establish correct procedures, manage the
- team, or otherwise misadmister the effort .... one might think twice
- about having that person do more management (of course, they might be
- thought to have Learned Their Lesson).
-
- If the Crime is to mispredict technology ... and that alone ... being
- Wrong may be punishment enough in and of itself ;>
-
- Of course, IMHO only.
- --
- ----------------------------------------------------------------
- Keith H. Bierman keith.bierman@Sun.COM| khb@chiba.Eng.Sun.COM
- SunPro 2550 Garcia MTV 12-33 | (415 336 2648) fax 964 0946
- Mountain View, CA 94043 <speaking for myself, not Sun*> Copyright 1992
-
-