Subj : Re: Software Job Market Myths
To   : comp.programming,comp.software-eng
From : Phlip
Date : Sat Jul 02 2005 01:07 pm

shelley wrote:

> The very 'best' (perhaps exceptional  is a better word) programmers I
> have known have been, if not weird then at least a little unusual and
> both an opportunity and a risk in a project. They think faster and
> better, and are often impatient with the rest of us. These types are
> easy to regonize but the capabiity is difficult to characterize. Not
> error free, not balanced, not always right, but...

Tom Peters once shouted on stage, "I want you to hire people who are weird.
I don't mean someone who keeps a funny plastic toy on their desk. I mean
hire someone who is SO WEIRD that they might go and do the ONE THING that
shakes your project up and makes it WORK!"

> Not error free, not balanced, not always right, but...

The corollary here is you need open teamwork practices that keep everyone in
the loop, despite incompatibilties.

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  Phlip
  http://www.c2.com/cgi/wiki?ZeekLand

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