Alan Gauld wrote: >> I think you work at a much larger scale (of program size) than I do > > That's probably true. > > An average project for me involves about 3 months of architecture/design > generating maybe 5 or 6 workpackages given to different teams, each of > which will comprise between 10 and 50 programmers, so total team size > will be around 200-400 developers/testers and produce around 2 million > line of Java code over a year or so. I used to think that was normal but > I've discovered that in fact most folks are working on a much smaller > scale.
Yes, that's definitely larger than what I do! I can see why you need to think through the architecture more than I do. > The smallest real project I've ever worked on was 7 developers for 4 > months - around 50,000 lines of C++ - it was my first C++ program and my > first Unix project! Most of my projects are completed by 1-4 programmers in 3-6 months. The smallest real project I can think of took me about 2-4 weeks working by myself :-) Kent -- http://www.kentsjohnson.com _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor