Archive for September, 2005

Hiring: A Haiku

Thursday, September 8th, 2005

Here is a Management Haiku by yours truly:

Hiring poorly,
Infects, like a virus.
Demise may follow.

A bad hire is like a virus. Infection is easier than eradication: Serious illness often precedes recovery, with demise the most extreme of consequences.
The discipline of hiring well is apparently one of the most difficult things to maintain in the software development [...]