When trying to convince managers you have to bring it down to the fundamental things they work on: time and money. When presented with a project come up with 2 estimates. One based on using modules (be sure to add the additional time it takes to install the modules on all the necessary machiens). The other based on writing (and testing) the functionailty that you need to re-invent from modules. Let the manager choose. If he doesn't choose to use modules (almost always the cheaper solution) he will have to justify to the layer of management above why he choose the more expensive option. In my experience it is frequently much more expensive to re-write module functionality than to use existing modules (1 day vs 2 week projects, etc..).

In reply to RE: Getting managers to accept Perl modules by lhoward
in thread Getting managers to accept Perl modules by Fastolfe

Title:
Use:  <p> text here (a paragraph) </p>
and:  <code> code here </code>
to format your post, it's "PerlMonks-approved HTML":


  • Posts are HTML formatted. Put <p> </p> tags around your paragraphs. Put <code> </code> tags around your code and data!
  • Titles consisting of a single word are discouraged, and in most cases are disallowed outright.
  • Read Where should I post X? if you're not absolutely sure you're posting in the right place.
  • Please read these before you post! —
  • Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags:
    a, abbr, b, big, blockquote, br, caption, center, col, colgroup, dd, del, details, div, dl, dt, em, font, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, hr, i, ins, li, ol, p, pre, readmore, small, span, spoiler, strike, strong, sub, summary, sup, table, tbody, td, tfoot, th, thead, tr, tt, u, ul, wbr
  • You may need to use entities for some characters, as follows. (Exception: Within code tags, you can put the characters literally.)
            For:     Use:
    & &amp;
    < &lt;
    > &gt;
    [ &#91;
    ] &#93;
  • Link using PerlMonks shortcuts! What shortcuts can I use for linking?
  • See Writeup Formatting Tips and other pages linked from there for more info.