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Henry Spencer
henry at utzoo.UUCP
Tue Jun 17 11:09:02 AEST 1986
> In addition, no engineer spends 100% of his/her time hacking. In
> fact, most studies show that only about 5-10% of a typical product
> engineer's time is spent doing coding. The rest is meetings, reports,
> etc. etc. During the time no hacking is occuring, that $9K capital
> investment is basically idle and losing money for the company.
One can also argue that during the time no hacking is occurring, the
$xxxxx/year investment inside the engineer's head is basically idle and
losing money for the company. I.e., that 5-10% factor is a bug, not
a feature. To quote Peter Drucker:
"Meetings are by definition a concession to deficient
organization. For one either meets or one works. One
cannot do both at the same time... There will always be
more than enough meetings. Organizations will always
require [lots of] working together... But if [people]
in an organization spend more than a fairly small part
of their time in meeting, it is a sure sign of
malorganization... meetings should never be allowed to
become the main demand on [a professional's] time."
[The Effective Executive, p. 44-45 -- highly recommended.]
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