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- From: nsridharan@faois.intel.com (Sridharan)
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- Subject: Re: Will we keep ignoring this productivity issue?
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- Date: 13 Nov 92 02:16:32 GMT
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- In article <BxKEv9.4K8@cs.uiuc.edu> Rob Hasker, hasker@cs.uiuc.edu writes:
- >On what sorts of projects? While there might be a difference for small
- >projects, it certainly wouldn't be clear that there would be a
- >difference for large projects. Besides, there might not be enough
- >"very good" people in your neighborhood to do a large project. So you
- >get the job done with the people on hand. (And don't most companies
- >promote the successful developers to management where they can't do
- >this sort of work?)
-
- Ahem ... the project wouldn't BE BIG if you used the "very good" people, would
- it?
-
- Try a hypothesis: What if .. just what if .. the famous 80-20 rules works.
- Examples: 80 percent of the function comes from 20 percent of the code
- 80 percent of the value comes from 20 percent of the effort
- 80 percent of the result comes from 20 percent of the people (in a large
- project)
- and etc etc
- So, if an ordinary programmer is a slave to the ordinary world
- and if a talented programmer understands how to apply the 80-20 rule and can
- get 80% of the most valuable work done in 20% of the effort; and
- if a "gifted" programmer is one who can apply the 80-20 rule twice over - and
- can get
- 64% of the value with only 4% of the effort
- - Would this account for the variability in productivity?
-
- Since the argument is generic - you might say why then don't we see the same
- in carpentry or shoe repair. Aye, then , the subject matter is not so ELASTIC
- and one cannot effectively do much in that subject.
-
- Comments?
-