Re: Hourly Consulting Rates for Embedded Work?

From: Guy Macon (http://www.guymacon.com)
Date: 05/09/04 

Date: Sat, 08 May 2004 20:40:02 -0700

Richard Pennington <rich@pennware.com> says...
>
>Paul E. Bennett wrote:
>>
>> It is interesting to note that it is qyuite possible to get quite
>> good and certifiable code from any average hack if you manage the
>> project the right way. As Stephen Flowers says, software failure is
>> management failure.
>
>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.

Sofware failure and development failure are not the same thing, but thay
are indeed both management failures. Here is a great essay on development
failures: http://www.guymacon.com/trance.html 

-- 
Guy Macon, Electronics Engineer & Project Manager for hire. 
Remember Doc Brown from the _Back to the Future_ movies? Do you 
have an "impossible" engineering project that only someone like 
Doc Brown can solve?  My resume is at http://www.guymacon.com/

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