[Cialug] OT Developer productivity - was: Which software to use for a SAN

[Jeff Davis]

Since this is a test group, I'm specifically asking for feedback.
We don't want to spend the time and money to get this set up and find
out the developers have known issues with their workstations.

Though as a more general rule I'm not making the trip around the dev area
asking everyone if things are going great for them, I have no problem looking
into a problem for a specific person.  That's one of the advantages I like about
working for a smaller company.

As as admin and previously been a developer, I want the developers as
"comfortable" as possible.  I want the infrastructure to have as little pain
as possible so they are as productive as possible.  If a developer is losing
15 minutes a day on an annoyance and I can fix it in an hour, I'm going to
find the time to fix it.  It goes both ways... so if I'm seeing
something that looks to be
a code problem I can hit up a developer for time right now without
having to send
a meeting invite and involving two BAs and a Project Manager.  GTD
sans bureaucracy.

-Jeff


On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 2:39 PM, Todd Walton <tdwalton at gmail.com> wrote:
> Strange. I'm still learning the art of being a sysadmin.  But at
> Wellmark we treat developers as recipient citizens.  You take what we
> give you and you be happy about it.  We'll give you all we have to
> give but don't you dare be complaining about not getting more!
> There's no real drive to find and repair the specific causes of
> developer angst.  We make the environment the best we can out of
> personal pride, but anything more is beside the point.
>
> It makes complete sense from the perspective of a company as a whole.
> But I think many developers would disagree about the specific worth of
> this approach.
>
> What do you do?  You know?
>
> --
> Todd
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