we run with 1 product, 1 designer (who shares UI design with product), 1 QA and 4 dev and it works pretty well for us. we bang out releases fairly consistently with few hiccups.
On 1/22/08, Patrick Neeman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > For pricing, we've been going with 25 percent requirements gathering, 50 > percent development, and 25 percent quality assurance as a starting point > for projects. The ratios may change, but I once worked on a team where > Product Management was 1, dev was 3, UI design was 1, and QA was 1, and that > team ran like a well oiled machine. > > Patrick > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Billie Mandel > Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2008 11:18 AM > To: IxDA Discuss > Subject: [IxDA Discuss] Ratio of designers to developers > > Hey fab folks - > > So I was at dinner the other night with the technical publications > manager here at my company, and he mentioned that the STC had stats on > how many documentation people a software company should have per > software developer, in order for the tech pubs team to be optimally > effective. > > Do we have anything like that for designers? Anyone done any work > determining what the relative size of the design team to the dev team > should be overall for a software dev shop? (Yes, I know, "it depends," > but a ratio range would certainly be useful) > > Thanks in advance (you'll be helping me build my empire and take over > the world, of course) > > Cheers, > - Billie > > > * * * * * * * > Billie Mandel | Manager, User Experience Design & Research | OPENWAVE > > ________________________________________________________________ > *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* > February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA > Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ > > ________________________________________________________________ > Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! > To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe > List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines > List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help > ________________________________________________________________ > *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* > February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA > Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ > > ________________________________________________________________ > Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! > To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe > List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines > List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help > -- -------------------------------------------------- www.flyingyogi.com -------------------------------------------------- ________________________________________________________________ *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
