Re: cobol code assessment

On Sun, 29 Jan 2006 07:27:08 -0800, Alistair wrote:
>
> 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.


Since there is only so much work that an individual can do, I would always
take the 5 people with two years over one with ten WHEN doing development
work.

That said, Given that that work will undoubtedly create more work down the
road with bugs and maintenance coding, I would much rather the experience
of ten years of analysis and trouble shooting than 5x2 years of raw coding.

In other word, as with all things, it depends.....depends on the job, what
sort of analysis required, what sort of maintenance anticipated.
Experience and product knowledge beats the crap out of raw heads to do
work.

Ideally, then I want one person with ten years, one with 5 and any number
of a team with 2 or less.

Chris
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