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August 04, 2005
Programmer Productivity
Here's a few nice quotes and data from the latest Joel article for the next time a student points out how they spent "so much time" on a lab assignment or the project.
There was so much griping among the students about how much work was required for this class that Professor Eisenstat started asking the students to report back on how much time they spent on each assignment. He has collected this data carefully for several years. ... In fact when you look closely at the data it's pretty clear there's no discernable correlation between the time and score ... The quality of the work and the amount of time spent are simply uncorrelated.
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/HighNotes.html
And Kyle should really appreciate this ending.
Internal, in-house software is rarely important enough to justify hiring rock stars. Nobody hires Dolly Parton to sing at weddings. That's why the most satisfying careers, if you're a software developer, are at actual software companies, not doing IT for some bank.
Posted by mikel at August 4, 2005 11:51 AM
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