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Preach
on, Brother Halsey!
Sadly,
it's all about the bottom-line.
When
will US business leaders wake from their common-sense coma and realize that the
short-term solution of cutting costs is no substitute for growing
revenue through better products and fostering innovation?
Horror
stories about companies who throw armies of off-shore developers (at 10
cents on a dollar) at projects to avoid paying US developers salaries and
benefits are everywhere. I even had an associate at our local java
users group lose his job because his company moved an entire product to
India.
I'm
still tickled by the ad I saw in 1990 that wanted 10 years of Java development
experience.
-JM
Jason Morris
Morris Technical
Solutions
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
www.morristechnicalsolutions.com
fax/phone:
503.692.1088
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Halsey
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Subject: JESS: Amusement in the rules
engineering job market
Has anyone seen the job posting out on Dice where
they will teach you (the candidate) rules engineering while you are developing
their software ? Of course, the catch is that "a stipend will not be paid" for
the first 2 months.
Somebody please help me out here, has the price
of offshore labor dropped to the point where we all do this for free
??
Other job req's ask for total rules system
analysis to be done in 6 weeks. From what I have seen, the analysis of a rules
system starts on day one and ends when the project is rolled out to the
customer because the engineering of a rule-based system is SIGNIFICANTLY
different from ordinary applications. And oh by the way, it cannot be faked
the way many projects do their applications - it is either VERY RIGHT or VERY
WRONG. The testing suites must be generated from the requirements, analysis,
and design work products and not pulled out of their butts.
It is no wonder that the failure rate of software
engineering in this country has risen to 95+ % (this is documented in many of
the trade rags).
Does management not realize that they are
commiting suicide with these ridiculous approaches to rules engineering ? Or
maybe this is the reason they are sending so much work offshore so that they
cannot be blamed for the certain failures to follow. If justice is to be
served then these managers need to spend about 6 months in some offshore
hellhole in order to collect their bonus.
Oh well !!!
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