Good Day, I know that this is a subjective type of question, but I was hoping for a little insight. My company decided about 2 years ago to redesign the internal windows-based program that is used to track orders and billing etc. Now the program has a huge number of features and checks that need to be run, almost constantly. I did not feel (at the time) that I had the knowledge/skill set to re-write said program (mostly cause I am a GIS person that also does web dev), so we contracted the design/development out. Now two years have passed, and I hear nothing but heartache at work as the current system is becoming more unstable, and the new system (according to the developers) is still at least 6 months away. They suggested some time ago to go with a web-interface for some parts of the programming, which I thought was a great idea (and even suggested CF, but they thought I was mad, and wanted to do ASPX, although now I have come to find out it is mostly in java)
Anyways, the General Manager has had enough of the contracted developers, and so last week, I got a ton of code written in C#/VB for .NET. However, the coding doesn't all work, although *some* parts do... I have been asked to evaluate what they have done, to assess whether it is worth the money that we have paid or not. What types of criteria is useful for this type of exercise? I mean, without a fully working system, obviously it is hard to evaluate, but looking at code structure/comments isn't overly revealing either (except the comment that referenced that they were being lazy at some point in the coding). Is it possible to put a monetary value on a system that doesn't work? By programmers who seem incapable of finishing it? I mean I do have a DB that has been redesigned, although the more I look at it, it seems over normalized.... Any thoughts/comments/suggestions are welcome! Thanks and sorry for the long-ish post. Rob ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:315031 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
