Re: cobol code assessment


<docdwarf@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:drik06$epe$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> In article <11tolhiaurgtc36@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
> Louis Krupp <lkrupp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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
>
> [snip]
>
>>> etc.
>>>
>>> With a view toward emphasizing the human investment in the existing
>>> methodology.
>>
>>Slightly OT, but is average experience necessarily a meaningful metric?
>
> Meaning is the result of interpretation, Mr Krup... or so Wittgenstein
> might have it.
>
>> 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?
>
> There is, according to the calendar, no difference whatsoever between
> someone who has ten years' experience and someone who has one year ten
> times over... but there seem to be things in just about any field that
> many appear to learn only over time and with repeated exposure; I know of
> no discipline that is obtained perfectly and instantaneously.
>
> DD
Puttng on a hat? :-)

Pete.


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