Re: Average, Best and Worst: Cost and Time to Produce Software Code

2011-05-11 Thread John Domingue
Hi Frank, at the risk of going off topic for this list there are several reasons for targeting non-specialists. Lindsay mentioned funding agencies to which I would add below. At the Open University we have a general background interest in this as we do not have formal requirements for our c

Re: Average, Best and Worst: Cost and Time to Produce Software Code

2011-05-11 Thread John Domingue
Thanks a lot Richard and John for the extensive comments. These more than satisfy my needs. best John On 11 May 2011, at 04:20, Richard O'Keefe wrote: On 10/05/2011, at 5:55 PM, John Domingue wrote: John and Paola, thanks for your comments. I understand that there are many variabl

Re: Average, Best and Worst: Cost and Time to Produce Software Code

2011-05-10 Thread John Domingue
"producing"? Sent from my iPhone On May 9, 2011, at 6:25 PM, Paola Kathuria wrote: John Domingue wrote: I'm looking for pointers to how much time and cost is associated with producing software code. I am somewhat flumoxed by this question. What kind of an answer were yo

Average, Best and Worst: Cost and Time to Produce Software Code

2011-05-09 Thread John Domingue
Apologies for a slightly ill framed and naive question to this list. I'm looking for pointers to how much time and cost is associated with producing software code. I'm happy to return a summary to this list in return for help received. [The context for this is that I'm preparing a non-speci