[ajug-members] Wipro coming to Atlanta

[Dean H. Saxe]

I'm with Justin.  I'm a consultant (no boos, please) and work from  
home 100% of the time when I am not on-site with a client.  This year  
that translates to about 75% of my time at home.  I generally love  
it, though occasionally I need a little socializing.  For me, and my  
other telecommuting coworkers, its highly productive.

How do we keep out team in touch?  Email, Skype (voice and text chat)  
and a yearly meeting of everyone in the organization.

-dhs


Dean H. Saxe, CISSP, CEH
dean at fullfrontalnerdity.com
"[U]nconstitutional behavior by the authorities is constrained only  
by the peoples' willingness to contest them"
     --John Perry Barlow


On Aug 7, 2007, at 12:11 PM, Justin Meads wrote:

> Great article.  For all of you hiring types out there, it would be  
> nice if you took note of one of his fundamental assumptions
>
> "You should seriously consider allowing your expert developers to  
> telecommute full-time. Restricting your search to programmers who  
> live in your area or are willing to move limits the talent you can  
> acquire. Arguments regarding "face time", productivity, etc. can  
> easily be nullified when you look at how some of the largest and  
> most successful Open Source projects such as Linux, Apache, and  
> Firefox are developed by individuals rarely living in the same time  
> zone or even country."
>
> I have been a full-time remote worked for over 20 months now.  One  
> other member of my team is also full-time remote and the rest of  
> the team work from home two or three days a week.  I am required to  
> spend one week a quarter in the office so that i get a little face  
> time.  I am as productive today as when i use to work in the office  
> (i just spend a lot less time sitting in traffic).
>
> -Justin
>
> On Aug 6, 2007, at 8:20 PM, Dean H. Saxe wrote:
>
>> How topical...
>>
>> A Guide to Hiring Programmers: The High Cost of Low Quality
>> http://blog.revsys.com/2007/08/a-guide-to-hiri.html
>>
>> Interesting read that plays very nicely into the discussion below.
>>
>> -dhs
>>
>>
>> Dean H. Saxe, CISSP, CEH
>> dean at fullfrontalnerdity.com
>> "What difference does it make to the dead,  the orphans, and the  
>> homeless, whether the  mad destruction is wrought under the name  
>> of totalitarianism or the holy name of  liberty and democracy? "
>>     --Gandhi
>>
>>
>> On Aug 2, 2007, at 11:31 PM, Dean H. Saxe wrote:
>>
>>> Amen, brother.  You definitely get what you pay for.  And we paid  
>>> for it with lots of hard work.
>>>
>>> -dhs
>>>
>>> Dean H. Saxe, CISSP, CEH
>>> dean at fullfrontalnerdity.com
>>> "To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or  
>>> that we are to stand by the president right or wrong, is not only  
>>> unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the  
>>> American public."
>>>     -- Theodore Roosevelt
>>>
>>>
>>> On Aug 2, 2007, at 11:19 PM, douglas at morganatlanta.com wrote:
>>>
>>>> If you set your standards very high on the folks you will hire,  
>>>> you have a really tough time filling positions (even if you  
>>>> advertize on AJUG jobs), but if you set your standards lower,  
>>>> you will end up with crap for a product (I know.  I inherited  
>>>> one of those.  Ask Dean Saxe).  It still takes people to design  
>>>> products and write code, and the quality of the output depends  
>>>> on the quality of the input.  Do you think it is really easier  
>>>> to find great people in third-world countries than in the US?   
>>>> While there are a lot of Indians and Chinese and Phillipinos,  
>>>> etc, they have a long way to go in terms of democratizing  
>>>> quality education in order to transform those large numbers of  
>>>> people into large numbers of qualified IT professionals, and the  
>>>> leadtime for producing IT professionals is rather long.  Given  
>>>> the growth rate of the need for IT professionals in the US and  
>>>> world wide, I don't see there being an excess of top-notch IT  
>>>> pros for a long time (or ever).  Not a high percentage of people  
>>>> from societies where people make $2000/yr end up getting Masters  
>>>> degrees in CS.  Those that do might manage to make a good living  
>>>> though, and might even end up getting to come to the US on an  
>>>> H1B.  I wish them the best of luck and hope they will send me  
>>>> their resume after they finish their "indentured servitude".
>>>>
>>
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