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Article #248Re: Schedule and budget are secondary
From: Richard Sargent
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 1989 15:30
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 1989 15:30
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> From: linda@rtech.rtech.com (Linda Mundy) > Message-ID: <3807@rtech.rtech.com> > Date: 11 Oct 89 22:49:07 GMT ... > Not picking you in particular, but this is > such a common attitude towards maintenance programmers, I thought it might be > appropriate as a topic of discussion in its own right. > Most companies I have encountered have the attitude that it takes a particularly *skilled* person to be a *successful* maintenance programmer. Think about it for a few moments: when you come along, pick up some else's code, have to find and fix a bug in the shortest possible time frame (since it is delaying your customers!), and so on. Good maint.programmers are worth their weight in gold (well, maybe silver :-) to companies which have a significant investment in existing products. In an ideal world, it would be nice if we developers didn't create programs with any bugs, so maint.programmers would only have to deal with enhancement requests, but it just ain't that way now, and won't be for quite some time to come. :-( Richard Sargent Internet: richard@pantor.UUCP Systems Analyst UUCP: uunet!pantor!richard
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!pantor!richard From: richard@pantor.UUCP (Richard Sargent) Newsgroups: comp.sw.components,comp.software-eng Subject: Re: Schedule and budget are secondary Message-ID: <25.UUL1.3#5109@pantor.UUCP> Date: 13 Oct 89 15:30:10 GMT References: <3807@rtech.rtech.com> Organization: Pansophic Systems Inc, Graphics Product Company Lines: 26