Comments on: “We are a Project Company” http://technology.amis.nl/2007/05/10/we-are-a-project-company/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=we-are-a-project-company Tue, 11 Jun 2013 22:09:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Mark http://technology.amis.nl/2007/05/10/we-are-a-project-company/#comment-4599 Mark Thu, 10 May 2007 23:58:09 +0000 http://technology.amis.nl/blog/?p=1938#comment-4599 Ah, that makes more sense now. Of course the difficult thing, what with offshoring and so on, is convincing the client of this. Many times I’ve been asked to tech lead a project that’s got all the developers sourced from TCS, Infosys and so on. Then you’ve got the double-whammy of it not being your own team and the team being managed by what is in effect a competitor. I always give it my best shot, but as you say, if you can build and nurture your own team, mix them in with your own technical leads and architects, that’s usually going to produce higher quality results. Good for you if you can convince the customer as well. Regards, Mark.

]]> By: Gerard Grafhorst http://technology.amis.nl/2007/05/10/we-are-a-project-company/#comment-4598 Gerard Grafhorst Thu, 10 May 2007 23:26:10 +0000 http://technology.amis.nl/blog/?p=1938#comment-4598 Hi Mark, Thanks for your comment – I need to be clearer. My point is that the architects, etc. add a lot more value when working in a team with AMIS colleagues: they help and motivate the whole team to perform better. The team performs better than the sum of its parts. Regards – Gerard

]]> By: Mark http://technology.amis.nl/2007/05/10/we-are-a-project-company/#comment-4597 Mark Thu, 10 May 2007 20:43:25 +0000 http://technology.amis.nl/blog/?p=1938#comment-4597 Hi Gerard,

I’m not sure what point you were coming to with your post, towards the end … why would you not just hire out your architects, tech leads and so on – is it because the rate you’d have to charge would be prohibitive (as you can’t “blend” the rate with the other staff on the project), or is it because the other team members, left behind, wouldn’t be as much value to the other projects they worked on (without the architects), or is it because you always do things as a team, you won’t do the architecture unless you can resource the developers as well?

It sounds a good posting, I’m just not sure what your end point was.

cheers

Mark

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