Re: cobol code assessment


Louis Krupp wrote:
> HeyBub wrote:
> [snip]
>
> > Be sure to include the "skill inventory" of the staff. For example:
> >
> > Average experience
> > Senior programmers - 12.
> > COBOL: 17.2 years
>
> Slightly OT, but is average experience necessarily a meaningful metric?
> Are ten people who can claim a year each of COBOL experience really
> equivalent to one person who can claim ten years, or two people who can
> claim five each? Is ten years' experience worth twice as much as five
> years, or is there a point of diminishing returns?
>
> Louis

Back in Doc Dwarf's Golden Days of Yore I read an article in a
computing journal which concluded that a trainee programmer would
improve their productivity up to a maximum level at two years.
Thereafter, their productivity declined somewhat but would not reach
the two year maxima.

So five people with two years experience each would definitely be
better than one person with ten years experience. Of course, DD would
posit that, like a good wine, he improves with age.

.

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