WOW Alan... great idea. If you need help making that code brokerage app. I'm
in.. ; )
----- Original Message -----
From: "McCollough, Alan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Fusebox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2001 9:05 AM
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.
> {redacted}
>
>
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