[Gllug] Dealing with "Word-Only" organisations

John Hearns hearnsj at googlemail.com
Sat Nov 6 09:31:43 UTC 2010


On 6 November 2010 02:08, general_email at technicalbloke.com
> Having said that one of the first Soft Eng lectures I attended circa
> 1994 pointed out that only 1 in 10 large scale software projects ever
> made it into production, somebody probably ought to have pointed that
> out to the powers that be before they flushed quite so many billions
> down the drain :/

Well, there is a solution to this problem, though a tad drastic.

Shoot the 9 software developers involved in the failed projects.

This will have two desirable outcomes
a) the good developers will be in demand, and command high wages
b) the next generation of developers will be too scared to do bad work
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