The big bugbears of IT catastrophes are scope creep and poor requirements analysis/definition.
So how do you prevent them on projects that last years? This is very much a waterfall mind set of "everything must be defined before we start" even though over the course of several years in which the project can last things *will* change. What is needed is an Agile like approach to IT projects.
One thing about the private sector, you learn quickly that about 80 percent of management is at best incompetent and care about little except their next promotion. The higher you go the bigger the idiots until you get to the top where at the executive level you have some really smart people and a lot of people that only know how to kiss ass and baffle people with bullshit.
I've worked for both and I didn't see much of a difference. Except that the private sector had more money to waste.
I took several shop classes and they were great. In High School we had a choice of 2 semesters of shop, two semesters of home ec. or one of shop and one of home Ec.
So I took woods (great for learning about wood and power tool safety), plastics (some of us made bongs, I made ice scrapers and name tags), and basic electronics. Take the basic electronics and turn it into a hardware/software class and you are done.
That is soooo low caste. You think mummy and daddy want Jody and Buffy to burns their precious little fingers on hot solder? We'll have Jesus and Billy Bob do those jobs.
I kid you not, a friend of mine, she burned boiled eggs. I'm serious.
I go to visit the house she, a friend, her brother (also a friend of mine), and another guy were splitting and in the kitchen there is this small pot with indescribably burned, crunchy, black goo stuff in it. She had crammed about 6 eggs into a tiny pot, put in some water, turned the gas on high, and then went to take a shower and do her hair. With predictable results.
In my experience they have (mostly) been clueless monkeys just in the US to get "Worked in America, know English" on their resumes. Do the 6 month contract and go home. While riding on the coattails of the clueful workers who work overtime to clean up their mess.
It's called "Externalized Costs". And basically it invalidates any economic theory, such as Free Market theory, which makes the assumption you can know the true cost of something.
Hahahahah that's a good one. I have met maybe 1 in 5 H1Bs who weren't clueless and unmotivated ("severity 1 for our biggest client? I'll fix it Monday").
And most of the ones with a clue were the women. The men were a waste of oxygen.
It's not a free market it is captured labor. Both for the company using the H1Bs, who cannot quit, and the Indian companies where emplyees have to give 90 days notice.
But for the first few years we were just recovering from the Bush recession. Bush in fact lost due to this. By 98 the boom had started but it was delayed. I for one did ot start earning a decent wage until '96.
What I had found strange was the large number of homeless or somehow struggling people I met who smoked. Almost all of them smoked. This is a plausible explanation.
1) What do you mean by "lots"? Is it growing as fast as the rate of population growth?
2) Silicon Valley income is over inflated compared to all US wages. Nice job picking the highest paid workers in the US. People in Flint make far less.
4) If you are making $10 an hour then 600 USD a month is unaffordable.
5) Price per square foot doesn't matter it is the monthly income that matters. Median US income is about 57K USD see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... or 3800 assuming a 20% tax bracket (which may be low). This works out to about 40% of take home which is above the 1/3 of income reccomended for housing. http://www.investopedia.com/mo... and see http://www.bankrate.com/calcul... The number for a 30000 home I came up with is 65K USD WITHOUT the cost of food, clothing, transportation, education and medical care.
6) You concede the cost of education to me.
7) Inflation is a zero sum game. If costs of goods goes up and incomes lag, workers lose.
8) OK. WHat is your definition of inflation? If prices go up and income does not keep pace we have inflation. Note the CPI does not include many items of importance such as food and transportation.
All I can say is that what I see and is conveyed to me by others can be explained by statistics.
The price of gadgets doesn't matter real people need real goods.
I notice you didn't mention the price of shelter, education, health care, or transportation. Cars are at the point where people are having problems affording them, https://www.nytimes.com/2016/0.... Do I have to even link to stories about health care, education, or housing prices? So what if the new gadget is cheaper. If your wages can't afford those big items you are screwed.
Your simple model is deeply flawed and doesn't account for things like farmers turning their farms into developments if they can't get good prices for their crops due to over production. This is partly why family farms are disappearing, the kids of the farmers see more money in real estate development.
Inflation tells me people are losing ground. The trend I see is more and more ostensibly middle class people, including myself, shopping in thrift stores, using craigslist, or going sites like free cycle. The middle class is in trouble.
It's already started. It is harder to layoff foreign workers overseas than in the US. I do believe India has a 90 notice law (for both workers and companies), China makes it hard to retrieve capital once you send it to them, the Dreamliner and Air Bus supply chains are so convoluted is because a number of countries said "If you don't make some parts here we won't buy any from you".
There is a sneaky and quiet trade war already in progress.
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The big bugbears of IT catastrophes are scope creep and poor requirements analysis/definition.
So how do you prevent them on projects that last years? This is very much a waterfall mind set of "everything must be defined before we start" even though over the course of several years in which the project can last things *will* change. What is needed is an Agile like approach to IT projects.
Everything. If you do not understand the importance of data then you had best not be in anywhere near IT in any manner.
I suppose an oil and gas boom had nothing to do with....
One thing about the private sector, you learn quickly that about 80 percent of management is at best incompetent and care about little except their next promotion. The higher you go the bigger the idiots until you get to the top where at the executive level you have some really smart people and a lot of people that only know how to kiss ass and baffle people with bullshit.
I've worked for both and I didn't see much of a difference. Except that the private sector had more money to waste.
6th grade pre-MBA courses?
I took several shop classes and they were great. In High School we had a choice of 2 semesters of shop, two semesters of home ec. or one of shop and one of home Ec.
So I took woods (great for learning about wood and power tool safety), plastics (some of us made bongs, I made ice scrapers and name tags), and basic electronics.
Take the basic electronics and turn it into a hardware/software class and you are done.
That is soooo low caste. You think mummy and daddy want Jody and Buffy to burns their precious little fingers on hot solder? We'll have Jesus and Billy Bob do those jobs.
When you buy flying pigs, that black gooey stinky sticky stuff tends to get everywhere.
I kid you not, a friend of mine, she burned boiled eggs. I'm serious.
I go to visit the house she, a friend, her brother (also a friend of mine), and another guy were splitting and in the kitchen there is this small pot with indescribably burned, crunchy, black goo stuff in it. She had crammed about 6 eggs into a tiny pot, put in some water, turned the gas on high, and then went to take a shower and do her hair. With predictable results.
In my experience they have (mostly) been clueless monkeys just in the US to get "Worked in America, know English" on their resumes. Do the 6 month contract and go home. While riding on the coattails of the clueful workers who work overtime to clean up their mess.
It's called "Externalized Costs". And basically it invalidates any economic theory, such as Free Market theory, which makes the assumption you can know the true cost of something.
Hahahahah that's a good one. I have met maybe 1 in 5 H1Bs who weren't clueless and unmotivated ("severity 1 for our biggest client? I'll fix it Monday").
And most of the ones with a clue were the women. The men were a waste of oxygen.
India! Send us your women!
The problem with giving them gree cards you see is it dries up companies sources of cheap indentured labor. Can't have freedom, it's bad for business.
Niether is good, no matter what you have heard.
It's not a free market it is captured labor. Both for the company using the H1Bs, who cannot quit, and the Indian companies where emplyees have to give 90 days notice.
There's a difference between immigrants and indentured servants who have to return to their country at then end of their contract.
But for the first few years we were just recovering from the Bush recession. Bush in fact lost due to this. By 98 the boom had started but it was delayed. I for one did ot start earning a decent wage until '96.
you are right it doesn't see: http://www.huffingtonpost.co.u...
What I had found strange was the large number of homeless or somehow struggling people I met who smoked. Almost all of them smoked. This is a plausible explanation.
1) What do you mean by "lots"? Is it growing as fast as the rate of population growth?
2) Silicon Valley income is over inflated compared to all US wages. Nice job picking the highest paid workers in the US. People in Flint make far less.
3) Americans get the best health care they can afford or go without. Incomes continue to drop while health care costs rise. Income: http://www.weeklystandard.com/... and health care costs:
http://www.weeklystandard.com/...
4) If you are making $10 an hour then 600 USD a month is unaffordable.
5) Price per square foot doesn't matter it is the monthly income that matters. Median US income is about 57K USD see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... or 3800 assuming a 20% tax bracket (which may be low). This works out to about 40% of take home which is above the 1/3 of income reccomended for housing.
http://www.investopedia.com/mo... and see http://www.bankrate.com/calcul...
The number for a 30000 home I came up with is 65K USD WITHOUT the cost of food, clothing, transportation, education and medical care.
6) You concede the cost of education to me.
7) Inflation is a zero sum game. If costs of goods goes up and incomes lag, workers lose.
8) OK. WHat is your definition of inflation? If prices go up and income does not keep pace we have inflation. Note the CPI does not include many items of importance such as food and transportation.
All I can say is that what I see and is conveyed to me by others can be explained by statistics.
The price of gadgets doesn't matter real people need real goods.
The pall of National Socialism dropping over the US.
I notice you didn't mention the price of shelter, education, health care, or transportation. Cars are at the point where people are having problems affording them, https://www.nytimes.com/2016/0.... Do I have to even link to stories about health care, education, or housing prices? So what if the new gadget is cheaper. If your wages can't afford those big items you are screwed.
Your simple model is deeply flawed and doesn't account for things like farmers turning their farms into developments if they can't get good prices for their crops due to over production. This is partly why family farms are disappearing, the kids of the farmers see more money in real estate development.
Inflation tells me people are losing ground. The trend I see is more and more ostensibly middle class people, including myself, shopping in thrift stores, using craigslist, or going sites like free cycle. The middle class is in trouble.
And any company partly owned overseas would have no right to lobby Congress.
It's already started. It is harder to layoff foreign workers overseas than in the US. I do believe India has a 90 notice law (for both workers and companies), China makes it hard to retrieve capital once you send it to them, the Dreamliner and Air Bus supply chains are so convoluted is because a number of countries said "If you don't make some parts here we won't buy any from you".
There is a sneaky and quiet trade war already in progress.
We're talking about wages dip shit.