> This mentality is far worse then the article describes. The short sighted lack of institutional knowledge is, for technology companies, a serious issue. We ar

> This mentality is far worse then the article describes. The short sighted lack of institutional knowledge is, for technology companies, a serious issue. We are knowledge workers, and we know too clearly how technology management tries to treat salaried developers as inter-changeable. Add in contract technology developers and you have a recipe for success-causes-failure situations as there are black holes in the institutional knowledge of the flagship revenue generating product the company offers. Quoting a bit of comedy: As long as there are ill-defined goals, bizarre bugs, and unrealistic schedules, there will be Real Programmers willing to jump in and Solve The Problem, saving the documentation for later. -- "Real Programmers Don't Use PASCAL"[0] There are a lot of consultants who stand to make a ton of money due to lack of institutional knowledge. [0] http://web.mit.edu/humor/Computers/real.programmers http://web.mit.edu/humor/Computers/real.programmers