William Pietri wrote:
> Good news; it looks like salaries for developers are recovering, and
> outsourcing is not the threat that some think. This article mentions a
> number of factors that help one's salary, including Extreme Programming
> skills:
>
> http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?
> articleID=54202029
>
> That certainly matches my experience; I'm rummaging around for XP-
> experienced developers in the San Francisco area for some upcoming
> projects, and many of the good XPers I know are booked solid.
When you started rummaging, I was the exception that proved the rule
about XP-experienced programmers. (Y'all may recall my annoyed
employment jokes around September.)
I'm now working at a game studio, where agile development otherwise
has remarkably little market penetration. I'm building a Continuous
Integration Test Server, too.
In a nutshell, low wages, outsourcing, and failing to meet customer
needs are not the problems. Game customers have no needs.
The problems are apparently:
- an absurd overtime ethos for no apparent reason, and
against the evidence of statistics
- very long turn-around on gameplay design decisions, due
to the incredibly high volume of code and art in a game,
leading to continuous disintegration
- an incestuous need to only hire programmers with
game experience, because the process itself is
not predictable or reproducible
- a deliriously high rate of simple display bugs.
So, while we can all read between the lines of the magazine article
you cited, it still teaches very little to those who are unencumbered
by the need to add business value to software!
--
Phlip
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