On 2010-11-09, Mark Knecht <markkne...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I don't mind system administration but I don't want to be a programmer >> any more. ??I'd like to hire programmers to work in the manner >> described above. ??They would each work on modules and not know about >> the system as a whole. ??How can something like this be implemented? > > Get ready to pay a lot more for the documentation and testing portions > of your costs.
A lot more. > If you write a clear spec Anybody who thinks they can write a clear spec is deluded. I've seen a _one_page_spec_ where the requirement was completely re-stated three different ways (with examples!) -- and the programmers in eastern Europe still mis-understood it. Even after several days of e-mails back and forth where the specification was re-explained in several more ways, they still didn't understand. After about a week of daily e-mails back and forth, the light finally came on. The implementation of that spec (adding a command to a protocol), took 15 lines on code on my end, and there's no way it could have taken any more than that on the other end -- except they completely misunderstood the requirement, and they simply couldn't understand how what we were telling them was different than what they did. -- Grant
