Hmmm…maybe someone can help me with this? I’d like to open a JIRA please proposing that Linden Lab bottle whatever magic it is that runs Sidewinder Linden’s sense of community relations, clarity of communication, and project oversight so that it can be embedded in the code.
Havok4 has run remarkably well on the sims I launched it on. Sure, still some weird glitches and retro-fitting of some things, but on top of the fact that it was nearly crash-proof even with a tidal wave of objects and scripts, they also steadily but surely ticked off the issues and got the thing up and running.
I’ll reserve judgment on grid-wide roll-out. Haven’t noticed anything weird, other than the usual asset server issues and so on….but haven’t tracked it that well today.
Bottom line for me: kudos to Sidewinder and what should be standard rather than exceptional practice.
(What an odd, odd sensation posting about the incompetence around the handling of new branding guidelines and their follow-up while watching excellence in action. Hmmm. I guess it ISN’T a leadership issue because under some kind of leadership it would be consistently good, or consistently bad. Suppose it’s a “leave everyone to their own devices” kinda shop).
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I have no idea what the substance of Havoc 4 is because I’m not running it yet, but I’ve long been impressed with Sidewinder because:
o he’s a grown-up among kids
o he follows up — relentlessly
o he plans his work and works his plan
o he reports on what he’s doing, warts and all — which is supposed to be the spirit of their wacky hippie system there but none of them ever do it
In short, Sidewinder is worth his weight in gold in that outfit. Yes, it would be good to clone him — except people like this get this way not by being clones, but by being individuals who take responsibility.
It’s that failure to take responsibility that haunts most of them.
/me nods.
Which is probably as much a function of the culture set up by management as it is individual character flaws. If the management culture is “hey, we all do what we can, we’re human, this is a grand experiment, do what you want, as you want, we’re a forgiving, organic, living, breathing experiment after all” then that’s fairly easily interpreted as “oh, OK, so I’ll do what I want and when I lose interest not really do it anymore” although you’ll still have your Sidewinder exceptions who likely had strict parents and an insane desire to please.
Permission to fail is one of the needed virtues of a company, especially a technology one. Permission to fail because of lack of trying, hubris, or being inconsiderate of your customers should be a virtue that gets you kicked out the door.
Will be interesting to see who M kicks out first.
Sidewinder Linden is clearly a trained professional program manager. Every aspect of his work that I have seen has been impeccable - he has plan, he executes to the plan, he communicates clearly and follows up, and most of all he is infinitely conscientious. On more than one occasion I have seen him arrive personally to evaluate a problem, and while doing do he is personable, engaged and patient.
He is, in summary, a rock star.