I personally think that experience is key. However, the experience needs to be relevant to the project. Also, I think it is more than productivity. I can hire a guy with 1 year experience that can churn out tons of code a day. However, you have to look at the quality of the output. The code output by a seasoned, experienced developer is bound to be more advanced and well written than someone learning the language.
To use a saying that I love, "It is not the quantity or the quality. It is the quality of the quantity." I have been writing CF for many years. I look back at code I have written in the past and can usually find ways to optimize it and make it even better today. That kind of knowledge comes from a deep understanding of the language that you can only get from experience. --Dave http://www.dkferguson.com/BlogCFC/ >This may be OT, however I would appreciate your opinion, realizing this >is hard to quantify and purely speculative. > >You have two developers. > >One is a couple years out of college, BS in Computer Science. Done some >work with Access and VB. You need to train him in CF, but he has all >the intangible attributes you like, enthusiasm, good learner, self >starter blah blah.... > >The other is a veteran senior CF developer with more than 6 years of CF >experience working with fairly complicated applications. > >How much more would you expect from a senior developer than a newbie you >need to train. > >Bean counters want some sort of quantifiable comparison. Would you >expect 20% more productivity? 40% how much? For how long obviously the >newbie will get better / faster with time so maybe after two or three >years there are equal expectations. > >I realize there are too many intangibles to count. But as a rule how >much better are you in year ___ of your CF experience than you were in >year one? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Macromedia ColdFusion MX7 Upgrade to MX7 & experience time-saving features, more productivity. http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion?sdid=RVJW Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:278328 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
