Of course you are right - in the larger context. In the immediate context, it is also easier to find good German programmers, because in Germany, programmers tend to be those who want to programme as a career, not those swept in by the currently-prevailing wave.
Regarding your point about communications overheads, you probably then also know about Phillippe's Law: the daily per capita output (tested lines of code) of a team is given by the cube root of (15000 divided by n), where n is the size of the team. Amusing but instructive.
Devdas Bhagat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Devdas Bhagat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 31/10/06 06:24 +0000, Indrajit Gupta wrote:
> All said and done, I get a lot more out of my two-and-a-half people
> in the UK than out of a very large number in Chennai. I'd rather hire
> one good German programmer than hire 30 bad programmers at 1/30 the
> cost each.
Cue reference to The Mythical Man Month. A good programmer is 10 times
as productive as an average one. Nationality doesn't matter.
Also, 10 average programmers can't replace one good one because you have
the overhead of interperson communication (55 distinct pairs).
Devdas Bhagat
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