Subj : Re: experience with indians?
To   : comp.programming
From : Phlip
Date : Tue Sep 06 2005 02:53 pm

Richard Heathfield wrote:

> Eight people, six months, broken program which "worked" more by luck than
> judgement. Impossible to maintain. Would have given the comp.lang.c++ guys
> the screaming heebie-jeebies.

At the 1 month mark, did they submit a working program with the most 
important 1/6th of the functionality?

The problem, Giuseppe, is that in-house teams can often squeak by with bad 
practices, such as a single iteration that's 6 months long. But when you 
retain any out-source or work-at-home help, you conflate your own shop's 
process problems.

Some boss, for example, heard the 6 month estimate (or, more likely, 4 
month), multiplied the time by the low wages, and gave that project the go. 
Then the boss gave that team the same freedoms he or she gave in-house 
teams, not realizing how many natural checks and balances were missing.

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  Phlip
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