Beefy Boxes and Bandwidth Generously Provided by pair Networks
P is for Practical
 
PerlMonks  

comment on

( [id://3333]=superdoc: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??
Management use individual KPIs to reward high performers in Sales and other departments. They are contemplating doing the same for Software Developers.

They've tried this before in the 1990s, it didn't work well. There are many variables, and a huge variable is: your vendor's modules/software doesn't do what it says it does. Keep in mind that marketing people, not software engineers, usually write the marketing material. Thus the marketing people really don't understand what a product does, and when programming gets involved, details matter. This was so bad that in one company I demanded to review all documentation written for changes I made. (We had a marketing person writing technical documentation. Sometimes it lacked important details, and sometimes it was just incorrect.)

Example: In the 1990s I was using MS Access. The box said it was backwards compatible with all versions. It was not. It only converted forms, queries, reports, and macros, not code. When a new version of Access was installed, all code had to be retested, and sometimes rewritten. If you used a lot of code, it was a sure bet something was going to break, especially if you used a DLL that got upgraded. When the OS or another product (like Access) was upgraded, some DLLs had their data type changed to another larger type, from integer to long for example.

My point: you really don't know if your vendor's software will do everything it says because you can't trust what's on the box or in the documentation. Good luck getting your vendor to fix something (that should have been designed correctly in the first place) just for you without paying through the nose.

Perl 5.8.8 on Redhat Linux RHEL 5.5.56 (64-bit)

In reply to Re^2: Nobody Expects the Agile Imposition (Part VII): Metrics by bulrush
in thread Nobody Expects the Agile Imposition (Part VII): Metrics by eyepopslikeamosquito

Title:
Use:  <p> text here (a paragraph) </p>
and:  <code> code here </code>
to format your post; it's "PerlMonks-approved HTML":



  • Are you posting in the right place? Check out Where do I post X? to know for sure.
  • Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags. Currently these include the following:
    <code> <a> <b> <big> <blockquote> <br /> <dd> <dl> <dt> <em> <font> <h1> <h2> <h3> <h4> <h5> <h6> <hr /> <i> <li> <nbsp> <ol> <p> <small> <strike> <strong> <sub> <sup> <table> <td> <th> <tr> <tt> <u> <ul>
  • Snippets of code should be wrapped in <code> tags not <pre> tags. In fact, <pre> tags should generally be avoided. If they must be used, extreme care should be taken to ensure that their contents do not have long lines (<70 chars), in order to prevent horizontal scrolling (and possible janitor intervention).
  • Want more info? How to link or How to display code and escape characters are good places to start.
Log In?
Username:
Password:

What's my password?
Create A New User
Domain Nodelet?
Chatterbox?
and the web crawler heard nothing...

How do I use this?Last hourOther CB clients
Other Users?
Others taking refuge in the Monastery: (2)
As of 2024-04-25 03:48 GMT
Sections?
Information?
Find Nodes?
Leftovers?
    Voting Booth?

    No recent polls found