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The impression I've got is that the problems with the project come down to a combination of firstly, as @jgrahamc rightly points out, the fact the project has b
by singular 16y ago
The impression I've got is that the problems with the project come down to a combination of firstly, as @jgrahamc rightly points out, the fact the project has been unleashed all at once across the country rather than one surgery at a time as would be sensible, and secondly (ok, I am risking downvotes here bigtime), I think, poor programmer and management quality - I'm sure there are good programmers on the project, but overall it seems to me the quality must be pretty low. The damage one bad apple can do in software is immense and entirely out of proportion to their position, magnified if that person is higher up in the hierarchy. Additionally it seems obvious that the project has been somewhat mismanaged.
I do understand the project is huge and really very complicated, and naturally a difficult problem probably more so than is immediately obvious, but it is that very fact that makes it easy for poor engineering decisions to have a big impact.
- jgrahamc 16y agoI agree with your on the programmer quality. I know people working on these type of projects: not the sharpest knives in the drawer.
- arethuza 16y agoI bet they are charged out at over £1000 a day though.
- junklight 16y agoranges between £400 to over a grand in my experience depending on what kind of skill sets. Remember that scaling this kind of business is hard because you are selling peoples time - so for each salary you pay you can only sell it one time over. Compare and contrast with being a product company - I might spend a few weeks working on a product and then those few weeks of my salary can be sold over and over again. The scaling of so many employees also brings massive overheads. So yes - the day rates seem high but the margins can be pretty rubbish.
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- junklight 16y agoThe kind of company that can cope with doing business with the government is rarely the kind of company that attracts and retains decent programmers. In my experience most of the programmers in these kind of companies are people who just do it for a job (as opposed to those of us who do it because we can't help it and are pleasantly surprised to discover people will pay us to do it :-) )