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Originally Posted by moon
It sure was tough considering he never said that he does it all on his own or without help. He pointed out how he is set up so that he doesn't have to rely on his co-workers or employment to pick up his slack.
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Yeah that's fair to say.
Custom software development of complex enterprise applications is the gig. It isn't perfect, but most of our processes that we follow are best of class. We definately aren't super heros, when a company needs super heros or heroic work, typically there are big problems under the surface.
The projects we work on take a year on average to finish. We still deliver components of the whole project in a finished form every month.
We bill by the hour and they have to be honest hours. That's about where it ends. I don't give a rats arse how many hours someone works one day vs another. Velocity - the ability for the team to get through complexity is the metric we really obsess about.
I want my mom's and dads to sleep in if they have had a rough night. They will be orders of magnitude more productive when they finally do get in. If the commute is hard on someone, we encourage them to try different hours that aren't as busy. It is more important to have well crafted solutions that are fit to purpose than to worry about johnny who might duck out early or pull the odd all nighter to catch up. Sometimes people just get fed up or tired and leave early. Sometimes they are on a tear and work late. The project is better off in either case. Most of the time people work 7-9 hours and just go home. Most over time in one week over the last four years was 60, no one worked more than 50 in any 3 consecutive weeks and we all averaged under 45 each of the years.
I work with similar minded people. It isn't luck either that I found this gig, it resulted from long term career planning and hard work over many years to get here. Definitely not talent. What motivated me to get this focused? Desire to have a family.