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That IMHO is the main flaw of all these new management techniques
and "metrics" being pushed by methodology reps. They are
very good when dealing with coal face workers. They haven't got
a chance in hell of accurately representing working patterns when
dealing with a technical job. Most of them are extrapolated
from factory environments, where the amount of work is easy to
measure in terms of units/hour. Since none of them even make
an effort at defining what's a unit of work for a DBA or a designer
or an "architect" or even an analyst, they fail miserably in
properly tracking this type of job.
Result? Totally incorrect project metrics and cost extrapolations. Corollary? Make these jobs disappear because of their "inconvenience" in fitting a flawed model. Not fix the model.
And they wonder why projects can easily "fail"? They can't even
accurately define "failure" nowadays!
</rant>
Cheers
Nuno Souto
nsouto_at_nsw.bigpond.net.au
http://www.users.bigpond.net.au/the_Den
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