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- From: drake@Autodesk.COM (Dan Drake)
- Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
- Subject: Re: Will we keep ignoring this productivity issue?
- Message-ID: <17917@autodesk.COM>
- Date: 12 Nov 92 21:32:54 GMT
- References: <BxKEv9.4K8@cs.uiuc.edu+
- Organization: Autodesk Inc., Sausalito CA, USA
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- hasker@cs.uiuc.edu (Rob Hasker) writes:
- + rcd@raven.eklektix.com (Dick Dunn) writes:
- +
- + >>...However, it is a fairly-well-established rule of thumb that
- + >>very good programmers can be an order of magnitude or more productive than
- + >>the average and do a good job...
- + >
- + >How many software businesses can really afford to ignore such large factors
- + >in development cost? Can they really afford (say) the difference between
- + >$150,000 and $3 million in development cost?
- +
- + On what sorts of projects? ...
- + (And don't most companies
- + promote the successful developers to management where they can't do
- + this sort of work?)
- Yes. And doesn't that suggest that most companies are causing
- themselves a major productivity problem?
-
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- Dan Drake In software, the *complete* design *is* the software!
- drake@Autodesk.com --Hugh Lamaster
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