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helps reassure some prospectives In reality I don't think it works as you expect. Most people have come to see these "collective experience" lines as excuses
by brk 17y ago
helps reassure some prospectives
In reality I don't think it works as you expect. Most people have come to see these "collective experience" lines as excuses for not having anyone on the team with more than a few years of experience.
Would YOU want to get a heart transplant from 5 medical students with "10 years of collective experience"? The reality is that this collective experience is not really additive. If you have 1 person with 20 years of experience in some area, they've seen a couple of cycles and progressions of technology. No amount of people with 3 years of recent experience can ever really match this.
- jodrellblank 17y agoDo you see it as an excuse for not having someone with 20 years of experience, or as a way to distinguish from a company with no experience?
- pxlpshr 17y agoThe mobile software market is young (relative to it's tragic past) and we're a small shop of mashups => advertising/web/software engineering. I have roughly 10 years of experience but it's not about me, it's about us and when combined — we have a lot to offer as a young company that's trying to get off the ground. I'm very transparent when communicating our strengths and weaknesses to make sure the project+expertise = good fit on both ends of the deal. I agree with your point about wisdom, but heart surgery is rather linear and you better be highly specialized in your trade for that line of work. :) ps. It's not that I disagree with ASmartBear, I just feel the post is a bit generalized in its advice. Selling client services does not benefit from a prebuilt software product that can sell itself.