how much knowledge is embedded in the memory and experience of the one guy whose pager is always going off and who's getting tired of working 80 hour weeks. How many fixes were done by the one guy who's on vacation and unreachable until October?

Lots. Though I don't have a pager, but a cell phone and it's not going off. And I don't have any vacation scheduled until November.

The question is where and how to keep that information. And how to keep it up-to-date. And not spend 90% of time doing that. So, yes, if I were ran over by a bus (or did decide to leave) my one and only coleague in our team would have a tough time. I'm sure though that even in the first case he'd make it.

Jenda
XML sucks. Badly. SOAP on the other hand is the most powerfull vacuum pump ever invented.

In reply to Re: Teams, Personalities, and Getting the Job Done by Jenda
in thread Teams, Personalities, and Getting the Job Done by samizdat

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.