I want documentation that says three smart developers is better than three smart developers and two dumb ones. It is frustrating that I have to spend much of my time trying to either fix their code, explain what needs to be done, or how to do it. I want a study done that measures the amount and quality of code that is produced by the two teams above. Does the time spent bringing the two up to speed (constantly) produce more / better code? I think it may be more, but I seriously doubt that it is better.
Does anyone have experience where the two left and the productivity rose? Cause EVERYONE knows that productivity goes DOWN when the two arrive.
Posted by carl at May 20, 2003 11:19 PM
Our development team is now a third the size that it used to be.
Redundancies removed a lot of the dead wood and kept most of the good programmers.
We are now far more efficient than we were before.
Web sites are delivered to spec on schedule and with very few bugs found after going live.
This is a marked improvement.
The general feeling (unproven of course) is that we can deliver our sites to a much higher standard in less time and with less people.
Posted by: Darren at May 21, 2003 11:54 AM
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