On 1/16/06, Sean Stickle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > (1) Unless you are paying them less, you are not getting a result for > less money. If you pay your programmers by the hour, then you're right. > But I'll warrant that most programmers are salaried, so the company pays > them the same $$ whether they do X or X+1. The savings you are talking > about are accounting fictions, not real cost reductions. It is an > increase in Throughput, not a decrease in Operating Expense. This is a > non-trivial difference, because depending on which one you focus on, you > will make different decisions.
Delivering better customer facing web applications faster will often have a direct cost benefit - better customer satisfaction, more products purchased, etc, etc. I am looking at the big picture, rather than just the cost of running the IT department. > If you look at the justifications in the Ford, GM and other car company > annual reports in the 80s, they all talk about increasing efficiency and > "reducing unit-cost". And I think we are agreeing that, despite what they *claimed* as justifications, there were other more important factors. > In many cases, yes they are. Glorified factory workers in some cases, > but most ColdFusion programming is for the same old CRUD forms that > differ only in the words on the form. And programmers who are just glorified factory workers will find their jobs going overseas. What, then, would you call software developers who are sufficiently creative and highly-skilled that they do not fit your factory worker business model? -- Sean A Corfield -- http://corfield.org/ Got frameworks? "If you're not annoying somebody, you're not really alive." -- Margaret Atwood ---------------------------------------------------------- You are subscribed to cfcdev. To unsubscribe, send an email to [email protected] with the words 'unsubscribe cfcdev' as the subject of the email. CFCDev is run by CFCZone (www.cfczone.org) and supported by CFXHosting (www.cfxhosting.com). An archive of the CFCDev list is available at www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]
