On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 4:21 AM, A. Mani <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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. Again, I lost you at the phrase "amount of work done from a global perspective". When you mention good measures are available for specific contexts, what do you mean by the term 'measures' ? What is it that you want to measure ? > 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. This is another place which is unclear to me. Labor standards/laws/guidelines/practices pertain to employment contracts and work hours among other things. Software development practices are limited to a different context. When you say "most companies have their own questionable policies" do you say that as a conjecture or, are there specific companies you indicate ? Which policies are being mentioned here ? Those pertaining to employment or, those limited to development/engineering ? > 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'. I don't see how CMM* and all other practices should include elements of local labor laws/regulations. -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay <http://sankarshan.randomink.org/blog> _______________________________________________ network mailing list [email protected] http://lists.fosscom.in/listinfo.cgi/network-fosscom.in
