Re: Can't live without.

"aleph0" <apl68000@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
news:fdbbd5f8-5eb9-46fd-9588-b1bc528b45ae@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>> can you seriously believe that they spend
>>> 10-20 times more ( I am assuming that the APLer gets paid t he same 
>>> as
>>> the orhers!) for the same end product?
>
>
> Well, the advantages of ONE APLer are IMO ....
>
> a) the project is normally finished 20 times ( or more ) faster
> (elapsed time)
> b) ANY SINGLE mistake in a program-suite is deadly, whether it was
> caused by 1 APLer or 20 other programmers in a team
> c) having 2+ layers of management is prone to creating mistakes from
> the very start
> d) the cost of "managing" 20+ people ( + their management layers ) is
> normally far more than 1 APLer
> e) "too many cooks spoil the broth" : too many managers that are too
> far away from understanding the application and are the main cause of
> delays
>
> I'm talking from experience ...  of what I've seen happen in large IT
> teams / cor****ations. I've seen millions and yes, Billions of $s
> wasted on software development in attempts to replace legacy APL
> applications etc. etc.
> The stories ( if I was to publish them ) are just unbelievable ...
> money wasted, IT (applications-development )management incompetance
> etc. etc. !
>
> BTW...
> The German Handelsblatt published a re****t many years ago stating that
> Inhouse-developed Applications are normally dumped at the rate of ca.
> 80%.
> The main reasons given were ( order of priority ):
> 1) the application developments took so long that the business
> requirement had simply (and finally)  disappeared !
> 2) the budget was so badly overrun, that they started to look outside
> for a solution
>
> FWIW

could you frame that in?