Re: multi-task-enabling CVE - realworld paradigms ?

Brandon J. Van Every (vanevery@animal.blarg.net)
Tue, 6 Aug 1996 21:12:23 -0700

I have yet to find a company as flexible as Themekit. Racal and
other much large companies, by their nature, take a great deal of effort to
flex - although generally put a lot more thought into how they are going to
change before doing so.

> But you mustn't think you're going to get something for
>nothing. People work on jobs in "teams" because generally speaking,
>the sub-tasks require the full attention of a single person.
>Also, more communication is not necessarily an improvement to
>efficiency... indeed, it usually results in a loss of efficiency.

I have not come across this problem. How did you derive this?

Huh? Haven't you ever been around people who spend more time meeting
and talking about problems, than actually getting the problems solved?
I cringe whenever I look over into the other cubicle, and see 4 of my
co-workers bottlenecking on some problem, when only 1 of them is
required to solve the problem, only 2 of them are working on it, and
the other 2 are standing there not doing much. That said, I think our
group is pretty efficient about "not wasting bandwidth needlessly."

Cheers,

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