Tim Churches wrote: > I have been told by people who should know, that 60% of the available > resources for any large information system project ought to go into > design (including testing of designs through prototypes), 20% into > actually building the system and 20% into quality assurance. Then the > next 20% goes into fixing the original design, 40% into modifying the > original code, and another 40% into the quality assurance reqired to > find all the bugs introduced when the original code was hacked around by > a new set of contract programmers engaged to make all the modifications. > That is if things go well... > And the other 50% of the money needs to go to marketing. This is why this type of software is so tough. By the time you are finished with the engineering and actually have a usable product, it may be dead on arrival b/c there is no money left to market it.
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