Re: Hourly Consulting Rates for Embedded Work?

From: Bruce (bruce_at_nospam.com)
Date: 05/09/04 

Date: Sun, 09 May 2004 03:27:15 GMT

In comp.arch.embedded
Richard Pennington <rich@pennware.com> wrote:

>My real question is this. How can development failure be management
>failure? Or more properly, how is it possible for management to "manage
>the problem in the right way"? I'm not saying it is not. I'm looking for
>insight to improve my (management) methodologies.

Pardon my interjections but I have some experience with this subject.

Management often makes decisions to cut test and debugging time.
Management often allows feature creep with no corresponding change in
schedule. Management is responsible to have in place a quality system
designed to properly validate the software. Management often makes
decisions that force software engineers to take shortcuts or work under
duress. Management often doesn't know enough about WHAT they are managing
to put in place things like version control, peer review, other design
controls. They don't enforce unit and integration testing; things which
many programmers won't do if they can get away with it.