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"Some organizations pretend that they are about other things, like serving people or changing the world. But in truth they are measured by money." And in prac
by nawitus 12y ago
"Some organizations pretend that they are about other things, like serving people or changing the world. But in truth they are measured by money."
And in practice they rarely are not. Nobody calculates the total cost of an unnecessary two hour meeting where 8 highly-paid employees discuss about something almost completely irrelevant.
Another problem with this is that it's extremely difficult to calculate anything when it comes to software, so expenses and profits are usually created using Stetson-Harrison when some higher-up needs a budget.
In fact, I'd say that companies that don't have such an "accounting" focus on software development do a lot better.
- vkjv 12y ago"And in practice they rarely are not. Nobody calculates the total cost of an unnecessary two hour meeting where 8 highly-paid employees discuss about something almost completely irrelevant." In my experience, that is absolutely not true. Just about any meeting I've ever been in with more than 6 people, the very first question was, "this meeting is expensive, does it need to happen and do we need everyone?"
- k__ 12y agoIn my experience, it is absolutely true. And I worked at really small and really big companies. No one thought about the cost of a meeting, they thought of them as a normal thing every company does for a few hours a week.
- ejk314 12y agoSounds like a good place to work. But that's in no way typical. At every place I've worked (granted, not all that many) meetings are "free" and when you don't want to be at the meeting you're "not being a team player."