see one, do one, teach one.
I heard this term mentioned one night while watching ER. From what i gathered, it a term frequently used in the medical profession as a vision of passing on knowledge. We on the it industry could learn from this. I can't recall how many times i've been thrown on the deep end of a project with no knowledge of what i'm trying to do and rapidly trying to keep up. If there was a way to mentor people to have them learn from seeing the 'right' way of doing things, there would be a lot better implementations out there rather than the stumblings that usually end up in production. But i guess with the rapid change of the it industry where new versions of products change on a yearly basis, this can be difficult.
Posted at 10:50AM Oct 30, 2007 by Holger Paffrath in Personal | Comments[2]
Hi Holger,
I've been working with the STC products since 4.1.2. I have to admit we struggle with the latest product. Our struggles tend to come from what the product prevents us from doing (specifically in eInsight) than what it enables us to do.
Simple things like accessing SOAP headers and implementation specifics to bubbling exceptions in Einsight cause us a fair bit of headache's. I'd love to know what your experiences are and what things you could provide "Insight" into.
Posted by Tarun Puri on November 04, 2007 at 09:24 AM EST #
you are absolutely right. but i think in this industry "the right thing" is hard to find. it is always hard especially for myself going the trail between nice looking & good architecture and creating real business value (sometimes not the same) with e.g. dirty hacks. so sometimes the right thing is a matter of taste!
regards chris
Posted by Christian Brennsteiner on November 05, 2007 at 07:55 PM EST #