[Info-vax] EDS and HP hard to tell the difference

[David J Dachtera]

JF Mezei wrote:
> 
> David J Dachtera wrote:
> 
> > If anything, I would let the junior staffers go and put my faith in the
> > "proven people". These are the people who get me out of the jams that
> > technology inevitably gets me into.
> 
> Playing devil's advocate:
> 
> "Quality and reliability is VERY important" is something that fewer and
> fewer types of businesses can afford anymore.

Hhhmmm... Must not be any lawyers ("lie-yers", as VAXman calls 'em) in
such places.

...or government regulators.

> A 911 service, or other
> some stock brokerage where downtime of a few seconds can cost it
> millions will have the justifications to hire high priced experienced
> people.
> 
> But in the last decade, fewer and fewer types of enterprises could have
> "money is no object, quality and reliability is a MUST" mentality and
> more and more are into cost savings mode.

...except in healthcare where the EMR is the "Holy Grail". The only way
the EMR always works to protect patients from medical errors and
providers from lawsuits is when uptime is a perfect 100% (which never
happens).

> And in cost savings mode, a company looks at its young "can do" workers
> who promise to deliver the world in 7 days and find it hard to justify
> keeping the older more realistic people who say that delivering the
> world will take mucgh longer and cost more.

...because they want to be told what they WANT to hear, not what they
NEED to hear.

Doesn't change the reality, of course. The kids can tell 'em the project
will take 90 days and cost $500K, then look sheepish and hope for
forgiveness when the project takes 240 days and costs $3Megabux (that's
considered the norm here in Chicago and Illinois - part of the reason
why Rio won the Olympic bid), but in the end the reality will be that
the project needed 330 days and should have been budgeted $3.5Megabux so
it comes in on spec., on schedule and under budget.

When the "can do" irresistable force meets the "can't happen" immovable
object, "can't happen" always wins.

Under-promise and over-deliver is what the "consumers" (end users,
internal customers, etc.) expect.

D.J.D.