http://www.nuaspect.com/ kind of beat u to it.
-----Original Message-----
From: McCollough, Alan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 05 April 2001 17:06
To: Fusebox
Subject: RE: Fwd: extreme programming
Imagine a world where instead of daytraders, you have daycoders. You get the
specs for one single CF template, read 'em, code it, and turn it back in an
hour. And cha-ching, you get a hundred bucks. Or mabye fifty. Or if Hal's
Filipino friends lock in on this action, you'll get a dollar and fifty
cents. Hm, what's the Filipino peso trading at this morning?
Anyhow, yes, I can see that if indeed a solid "black-box" protocol is
developed, where a coder could pick up a spec and return a completed CF
template, an automated service such as something running on
www.secretagents.com could indeed broker out CF template development in a
check-in, check-out paradigm, combined with a competitive bidding structure.
As a coder, you would register with the service in a fashion similar to
EBAY.
As a code architect looking for coders, you would submit complete code specs
to the server, and you would have the $$$ for payout in i-escrow, or some
other on-line escrow account. Along with the code specs there would be a
maximum payout for each code block, which I define as a single or group of
related CF templates that will need to be coded up. These will be treated as
a logical unit, with a dollar value, and a time constraint.
There would be a disclosure period, say 1 week, where prospective coders
could bid on specific components. The bidding would start at the fixed max,
and be a downward bid, with lowest bid winning.
At the end of the disclosure period, the winners get an access code, and
they check out their chunks and start coding. If it should happen that not
all of the code chunks sold, the code architect will have the opportunity to
cancel the entire project, or re-list it again, with perhaps an increased
max payout. Of course, any additional $$$ will have to be uploaded to the
i-escrow account.
During the code phase, the coder can upload their code chunk to the app
server so it can be hooked up to the test harness and verified.
If the coder succedes in producing validated code in the time limit, the
money is unlocked from i-escrow, with of course a 10% skim off the top for
whoever writes this wonderful code brokerage app. If the coder fails, the
code architect is given the opportunity to allow the coder some slack, or to
ban that coder from bidding on any further projects for that architect.
Imagine the thumbs-up, thumbs-down in the gladitorial arena, if you will.
So, in this environment, a freelance coder would register with the service,
and just sit at home and bid on pieces of projects. Because of the
code-chunk paradigm here, you would get that wonderful parallel coding
phenom where instead of one human coding for a thousand hours, you get a
hundred folks coding for 10 hours each.
Say, maybe I should quit workin' for Uncle Sam and do this on my own...
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steve Nelson [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2001 7:17 PM
> To: Fusebox
> Subject: Re: Fwd: extreme programming
>
> i want to take your 2 month development time down to 1-2 days (after the
> specification is complete). This would be done by having anywhere from
> 1-100 Fusecoders on the project. According to the mythical man month,
> this isn't possible because adding manpower to a project won't speed up
> development. Common sense tells me that it's because no has figured out
> how to linearly manage people.
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