On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 7:50 PM, sankarshan <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 5:50 PM, A. Mani <[email protected]> wrote: > >> It is about work measurement in the IT domain. >> We think a lot more is possible and so should be discussed. > > Would be good to have some elaboration about what you mean by 'more'
In the s/w development domain, though it is not very easy measure 'amount of work done' from a global perspective, good measures are available for specific contexts. Further in -house improvements/adaptation should also be possible in most cases. I am expecting reasonable comparisons between driver development and say web development. Further interpretations of the form 'n SLOC = so many hours of work= so much of testing' should have some standards associated. >> It is also about standards. > > Which standards ? > I mean development of labor standards. AFAIK some companies adopt different methods of functioning and create plenty of hype about it, but there are no real standards. Most companies have their own questionable policies. Some of them are adapting six sigma methods (rather old statistical methodologies + hype) to software development and such. But there is nothing about not permitting any body to work beyond eight hours a day (with sufficient breaks). Officially the legal limit of 48hrs/week is supposed to be in place. CMMI and such do not offer much. In India, IT sector needs improved labor laws, but the existing (very insufficient) 'labor laws of industry' have been mangled with 'relaxations' to form the 'labor laws of IT industry'. Best A. Mani -- A. Mani ASL, CLC, AMS, CMS http://www.logicamani.co.cc _______________________________________________ network mailing list [email protected] http://lists.fosscom.in/listinfo.cgi/network-fosscom.in
