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My line of thinking was that it takes X units of effort to implement feature Y. If two companies develop competing products, then 2X units of effort have been u
by nanidin 14y ago
My line of thinking was that it takes X units of effort to implement feature Y. If two companies develop competing products, then 2X units of effort have been used to accomplish 1 feature Y.
If both of those companies are working on the same product, then it might follow that 2X units of effort would lead to the implementation of feature Y and feature Z. Or that feature Y is implemented in less time.
- PommeDeTerre 14y agoThose kind of assumptions are highly idealistic and theoretical, usually don't hold true in the real world. It depends a lot upon the talent of the people involved, their past experience, their knowledge, and so forth. It also depends on the systems in question. The amount of effort needed to build some particular functionality can vary immensely between two experienced developers working for the same organization on the same system. It usually varies even more so when multiple organizations are involved, or multiple systems are involved.
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