tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6754238352334977510.post7918839821075974962..comments2023-08-25T16:29:11.563+02:00Comments on Fluxology : the rate of contextual cohesion across a unit area: sic transit axis mundiUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6754238352334977510.post-43477268522470736662009-01-03T17:12:00.000+01:002009-01-03T17:12:00.000+01:00Ciao Maurizio,Peopleware indeed looks interesting....Ciao Maurizio,<BR/><BR/>Peopleware indeed looks interesting.. i'd like to take a step further towards even more openness as hopefully the little micro-rant below will clarify.<BR/><BR/>Fortunatelly i have never had the misfortune to share your experiences of working internally at Sun.<BR/>Need breaks laws, Sun needs high-quality software and service people, they need experienced individuals, and as these people are mostoften working for their own the only pragmatic viable way to do so is to partner up with them like no company has done in the past.<BR/>Let's give it a go, it's time for change. <BR/><BR/>Take care<BR/>Paulkukanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04810473001082985377noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6754238352334977510.post-70805025818537325642009-01-03T15:43:00.000+01:002009-01-03T15:43:00.000+01:00I agree Sun could have the potential to model a di...I agree Sun could have the potential to model a different kind of company, a flexible service oriented system with the capacity to apply opensource concepts, extending them to the enterprise better than anybody else. But they need to change a lot in terms of operations and internal organization, as the company now is stuffed with too many hardware-oriented middle-managers in search of identity.<BR/><BR/>While I was still in Sun, discussing with my frustrated fellow software colleagues, the problem seemed clear to many of us and the solution evident: spin-off. The company as a whole cannot compete this way, there too many internal frictions, the single-country organization was ok ten years ago but now something more agile is necessary to resolve the present Babele. The Java and software services stuff should be a new and different company, maybe hiring younger people with software sensibility and strategic acumen. The lack of strategic thinking perceived during a Sun's internal meeting is incredible. One experienced Sun manager, while I was complaining against the last unfruitful and boring meeting, once told me: "you know, most of those guys were hired while selling for Sun meant just waiting in the office an order coming by fax from eager customers".<BR/><BR/>About Peopleware: I read the book and I know personally about a couple of companies which really applies Tom DeMarco's principles:<BR/><BR/>http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2008/12/29.html<BR/><BR/>http://valleywag.gawker.com/366548/googles-zurich-office-weirder-than-we-thoughtAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14483021801536852402noreply@blogger.com