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Subject:RE: So this is why...! From:WFoster -at- friedmancorp -dot- com To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Thu, 30 Nov 2000 11:34:50 -0600
I think debugging, testing, and the like do add value to a product. Nobody
can write code perfectly the first time; similarly, nobody can write a
manual perfectly the first time. Revision is part of the process. Projects
that get cancelled, however, are something else entirely.
Willow
~> -----Original Message-----
~> From: Tim Altom [mailto:taltom -at- simplywritten -dot- com]
~>
~> For my colleagues who work in the software industry, there's
~> a report on
~> www.slashdot.org quoting the consulting group Software
~> Productivity Research
~> that the average programmer spends only 47 hours per year
~> adding value to a
~> product. The rest of the time is spent debugging, testing,
~> or working on
~> projects that are tanked before release.
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