The Value of time revisited!

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After speaking to one of my friends about this, I must point out that my current client *IS* actually switched on enough to correct the situation by providing the best equipment they possibly could. It’s as pleasant change to have people in the chain who do value your time, and are more than willing to help remove any obstacles to you being productive. Although I did mention this in the previous post, it does read rather like they’re not paying attention, which they absolutely are.

My post was really about the real cost of loss of productivity and effectiveness in order to save pennies on equipment, where someone outside your project holds the budget, and thinks you’ll be spending 7.5 hours a day editing word documents and emailing.

Perhaps they should try creating a DocProject with half a dozen assemblies, and see how long it takes before they can use their PC again 😉

I’ve turned this type of semi-rant into a small essay, with references to various sources citing just the kind of point’s I’ve brought up here. I’m in the middle of reformatting it, and removing the names to protect the guilty. When that’s done I’ll post the whole article here for your viewing displeasure!