Increasing developer's productivity?
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As many people already pointed out, what you need is a complete UML/software engineering tool.
Program writing proper only accounts for about 15% of total development cycle, so you can only improve overall productivity of 7-8% if you found a way to code at double speed today.
The essence is: there is no silver bullet: No Silver Bullet, by F.P. Brooks, Jr.
Productivity DOES increase with new tools, editors, etc. but at a slow rate...
I hope that your new president knows that.
I think that developers can request (and obtain) that VMWare, or the like, be installed in their workstations.
That way, they can install tools on the virtual machine, they could even use it to do the real work!
Also, communication between real and virtual machine takes place through virtual ethernet (tcp/ip), so in principle the two could share folders and so on.
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As many people already pointed out, what you need is a complete UML/software engineering tool. Program writing proper only accounts for about 15% of total development cycle, so you can only improve overall productivity of 7-8% if you found a way to code at double speed today. The essence is: there is no silver bullet: No Silver Bullet, by F.P. Brooks, Jr. Productivity DOES increase with new tools, editors, etc. but at a slow rate... I hope that your new president knows that.
I think that developers can request (and obtain) that VMWare, or the like, be installed in their workstations.
That way, they can install tools on the virtual machine, they could even use it to do the real work!
Also, communication between real and virtual machine takes place through virtual ethernet (tcp/ip), so in principle the two could share folders and so on.