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Subject:Re: Doc$ v. Dev$ From:"Edwin Skau" <eddy -dot- skau -at- gmail -dot- com> To:TECHWR-L -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com Date:Sat, 25 Mar 2006 23:59:30 +0530
Just for my education:
In a software development project, are there ratios between:
1. programmers and testers?
2. front-end and back-end programmers?
3. sales/marketing to programmers?
4. Human resource staff to programmers?
I wonder.
Edwin
On 3/25/06, John Garison <john -at- garisons -dot- com> wrote:
>
> Greetings all.
>
> In the past, we've had some discussions about ratios of writers to
> developers, but I'd like to carry it a step further. I was asked this by
> my manager today, and could only try and extrapolate answers, so I'm
> turning to you all.
>
> What is the ratio of dollars spent on documentation to dollars spent on
> developing what's being documented?
>
>
>
> I await your replies ...
>
>
> John Garison
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