Subj : Re: experience with indians? To : comp.programming From : Alan Balmer Date : Tue Sep 06 2005 10:33 am On Tue, 06 Sep 2005 13:53:26 GMT, "Phlip" wrote: >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? Seems you missed something. At the one day mark, they should have submitted a working program with 100% of the functionality. Even if they wrote and executed unit tests for each few lines of code, it shouldn't have taken more than maybe a week. > >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. -- Al Balmer Balmer Consulting removebalmerconsultingthis@att.net .