Re: ISO "anecdotal evidence"

On Jun 27, 1:34 pm, Helmut Giese <hgi...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hello out there,
"everybody" knows that in a group of software developers (all things
being equal) the strongest can be N times as productive as the weakest
- for sometimes quite astonishing values of N.
"Everybody" with at least a certain knowledge of the software
development process, that is - but not my current boss.

I am in search of something to present to him which shows that this is
in fact, well, a fact - guess why :) - and anything could be useful:
scientific studies, any kind of reports, maybe just stories - could
be, stories are the best bet in this context.(hence the title of this
thread).

Here are a couple of posts to support your query:

http://blog.revsys.com/2007/08/a-guide-to-hiri.html (with follow-up)

and lighter in substance but with good points:

http://www.procata.com/blog/archives/2005/05/10/expert-programmers/

but links to something with real substance on this topic:

http://norvig.com/21-days.html

Jeff
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