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- From: bagwill@swe.ncsl.nist.gov (Bob Bagwill)
- Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
- Subject: Re: SE going offshore?
- Message-ID: <6962@dove.nist.gov>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 14:33:42 GMT
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- Judd Jones (jov@styx.ornl.gov) wrote:
- : (I note that even a 20:1 productivity differential cannot overcome
- : a greater than 20:1 cost differential, so greater per capita domestic
- : productivity may not be terribly relevant.)
-
- Here's something to consider:
-
- Q: What's the most effective method for catching design and
- coding problems?
-
- A: Group code reviews.
-
- Q: What's the most [upfront] expensive method for catching design
- and coding problems?
-
- A: Group code reviews.
-
- Q: What technique is easiest to apply if you have skilled,
- highly-motivated low-paid workers with little hardware or
- software support?
-
- A: Group code reviews.
-
- A U.S. company could hire a bunch of local marketeers and
- superprogrammers to do the design and then group review the code with
- cheaper non-local labor until it's six sigma.
-
- --
- Bob Bagwill
- bagwill@swe.ncsl.nist.gov
-