On 23 Sep 2008 at 4:56, dhbailey wrote: > How is the balance between the two development teams, > though? Has SmartMusic received more engineers than the > notation team, or is the notation team the larger of the two?
David, I just don't think this is any of your business. Software development is not an assembly line, where the more workers on each line, the more widgets get produced. It would not surprise me if at certain parts of the SmartMusic development cycle (e.g, the very beginning, or the start of a new release) all the Finale developers worked on parts of SM, or vice versa. That's the smart thing to do, i.e., moving developers back and forth between your two product lines, rather than having everyone devoted slavishly to one or the other. It gives you the flexibility to take on really big projects, as well as cross-trains your developers so they can work where needed. It's really not any or your business how MM allocates its employees. And even if they told you, it still wouldn't necessarily indicate anything at all about the relative priorities MM is placing on the two product lines. And it just seems rather rude of you to assume you can peer into their shop and tell pontificate about whether they are doing the right thing in allocating developer resources. -- David W. Fenton http://dfenton.com David Fenton Associates http://dfenton.com/DFA/ _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
