My boss is bidding on a project to convert a desktop application into one that runs online as a client-server application. The original app has a little more than a quarter of a million lines of C++ (MFC) code that's not cleanly divided between engine and front-end. I need to come up with estimates of how long it will take and how many ...
what do you think about IT recruitment and staffing firms in the software engineering industry, is it hurting or helping our industry? If you search a career site for anything IT related nearly half of the results are staffing companies...what is your take on this? Personally, I feel like they are making software developers a commodity ...
I have mainly worked in small teams or as solo developer and I am now working in a team of two working in-house maintaining a suite of business applications. There are bugs and as the system is 14 years old there is a lot legacy code and so one of the projects I am tasked with is to bring the application up to date so we are working on a...
I'm working on a typical internal web/database app for a large corporation. By typical, I mean, a project that was projected to be 4 months and $300,000 looks like its going to be 9 months and $1,000,000. IMHO, one reason for gross over-run is the ratio of functional people to developers, 3.5 to 2 (PM, BA, QA, and a scrum master that c...