Re: Ada Compiler Pricing (was Re: Hijacking a Thread was RE: NewAda compiler for .NET)

[Jeffrey Carter <jrcarter@acm.org>]

Jerry Petrey wrote:
 >
 > So they
 > brought in some 40 contractors to work overtime trying to crank out
 > the code - but of course nothing workable resulted and the contract
 > was finally canceled.  I'm sure that management realized this
 > 'mythical man month' problem but the more they spent, the more they
 > made in any case.
 >
 > Convincing management that a small team of exceptional people with
 > the proper tools can do a better and cheaper job that a large team of
 >  'average' people with error prone tools is not easy to do - it seems
 >  to go against their basic instinct that the more people you manage,
 > the more successful manager you are.

Precisely. This isn't "dumb" management--this is smart management! The 
company maximizes its profits and the manager, having managed a large 
and profitable project, gets positive attention and promotion.

-- 
Jeff Carter
"Monsieur Arthur King, who has the brain of a duck, you know."
Monty Python & the Holy Grail