Why would a group whose job is to build software, not budget purchasing computers for developers? That is like a taxi company not putting gasoline in the budget. Or better yet, tires. Tires are an expensive upfront cost! How could we possibly budget an extra $600 to tires?
We got new computers yesterday at work. They are quite nice. The developers on other teams are complaining about why they don't get nice new computers as well. I agree, why don't they have new computers as well? Developers should have the best tools available for their job.
My manager is out of the office in training, and the assistant manager got slammed with the question this morning. Since I was out of the office as well, when I returned my coworkers jumped on me, since I was the one who started the process for getting them in the first place. I invited the assistant manager over to my cubicle and showed her the difference between the environment that everyone else uses and the new computer. I simply started jEdit. On the old environment, it took 25 seconds to start. The new environment had jEdit running in less than 2 seconds.
There are a couple of people that support this stance. Joel Spolsky and Tom DeMarco are just two.
Posted by carl at April 7, 2004 11:32 PM
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