Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 17 Jul 1997 22:44:07 -0400 | From | "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <> | Subject | Re: Take A deep Breath |
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From: "Andrew E. Mileski" <aem@netcom.ca> Date: Thu, 17 Jul 1997 20:29:16 -0400 (EDT)
I agree, some companies do it that way. That doesn't make it sound development strategy. When I last went looking in the job market, all the companies in my area were ISO900* compliant (a government town makes this a requirement - heck, a few fly an ISO900* banner outside their offices). The first question they ask is, "What are your [code] documentation skills?" Any idiot can write code, and I've had to deal with the code of a lot of idiots.
Government != commercial.
Government contracts can insist on ISO9000 compliance. Goverment contracts can also insist on $900 toilet bowl seats --- our tax dollars at work...
Seriously, the commercial world, where you have deadlines and competitors to beat and market share to grab, is very different from companies who can simply work on government contracts.
Don't assume that what you see in the goverment contractor world has any relationship to the Microsoft/Netscape world, where companies release barely tested BETA code in order to beat the other in the browser wars, for example.
I'm not saying that this is a good thing, mind you; I'm simply saying what *is* for a large number of companies out there. There's a term for it, coined by the inventor of Java --- it's called "developing on internet time."
- Ted
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