The Software Engineering Question of the Age
March 16, 2017 by Kin
How do we create a perfect software product in no time?
(Inspired by some Dilbert moments in work meetings… though essentially, that is what managers, executives, and other so-called leaders want and ask for [implicitly] these days. Oooooh, if only they can get it.)
Some of the answers I got… (thanks to my friends)
- hahaha you write one line of code…hello world and that’s it *ROFL*
- not sure, probably the same way we fly without wings
- in the design….you state that your goal is to create an imperfect software product..and therefore it is perfect by definition
- tell ur bosses to wait til we die and go to heaven first
- Buy it from Japan.
- — fix the requirements and don’t change them
— agile software development
— reasonable sized team (I’d say about 5-10 people, but it depends on the size of the project)
and the last requirement
— STOP MESSING WITH THE ORIGINAL REQUIREMENTS - answer is simply stop writing becase “in no time” means only crap can be created
What’s you answer? Go.
Originally posted 2009-12-01 20:30:15. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
Older post here, but it is possible with money. You get the choice of three things, speed, accuracy, cost. You can only have two of these at any given point; so with speed and accuracy, your choice is to spend the money to get your other two requirements.
Eric, what you said is almost true, money does help. However, the fact that certain projects, or certain parts of projects, can only be done in a serialized manner where adding more people will not help, and in some cases, slow things down even more. Thus, sometimes, there is no way around besides “decreasing the speed” aka — provide more time.
But also, with more money you can buy the most skilled people to have the job take less time. So it isn’t always more people, it could be to have a better skilled people, which cost more.