http://geniusone.com/blog/my-14-year-old-son-can-do-that/ Since two decades author and leadership consultant Frank Kanu helps top managers and executives to improve success ratios and productivity. Fri, 09 Jan 2009 03:51:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 http://geniusone.com/blog/my-14-year-old-son-can-do-that/#comment-3091 Mike Sun, 17 Sep 2006 07:54:37 +0000 http://geniusone.com/blog/my-14-year-old-son-can-do-that/#comment-3091 Of course it's possible that his 14 year old son is a genius.... But leaving that possibility aside, even if he can program he certainly doesn't have the experience necessary to work in a commercial environment, deal with sales and marketing people, actually extract the requirements for a project (and by requirements I mean what they need, not what they say they want) or complete the coding on time (possibly involving managing other coding resources). Following that there's the implementation, post-live support, training and documentation to be done. But then us software engineers are just big geeky kids right - we don't have "real" jobs ;-) Cheers Mike
But leaving that possibility aside, even if he can program he certainly doesn’t have the experience necessary to work in a commercial environment, deal with sales and marketing people, actually extract the requirements for a project (and by requirements I mean what they need, not what they say they want) or complete the coding on time (possibly involving managing other coding resources). Following that there’s the implementation, post-live support, training and documentation to be done.

But then us software engineers are just big geeky kids right - we don’t have “real” jobs

Cheers

Mike
]]> http://geniusone.com/blog/my-14-year-old-son-can-do-that/#comment-3087 nate james Sat, 16 Sep 2006 01:08:30 +0000 http://geniusone.com/blog/my-14-year-old-son-can-do-that/#comment-3087 what a douche bag! ]]>