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I think it's widely understood that product teams write higher quality software than consulting teams

• jakejake 12y ago
  I would say that is probably true but isn't exactly fair to the individual developers on those teams. Product teams tend to be stable, were hired for their domain expertise, and have been working on the same product for a long time. So naturally they are a well-oiled machine for producing one specific product. Consultants are a mix of whoever is available at the time. They may or may not have any previous domain experience. Each programmer might be working on multiple projects of totally different companies at the same time. Developers might get rotated in/out of projects mid-way. So it's not that consultants are crappy developers and product teams are excellent developers, it's more the situation that they're thrown in.
• tragomaskhalos 12y ago
  Sorry if I'm being dense, but how does that relate to what I wrote above?
  • dustingetz 12y ago
    I guess I was alluding that if one is in a consulting situation where he can no longer estimate, one possible solution may be to increase quality by being more like a product team, and the resulting clarity of thought will help out his estimates