Chapter 5. Building a Winning Software Development Team
In the mainframe world of the 1970s, CIOs had an easy time building their software development teams. You hired some COBOL programmers, a few system analysts, and some operators, gave them a manager, and you were set. Eighteen-month backlogs for application changes were common but CIOs didn't worry much because users had nowhere else to turn. In the PC world of the 1980s building a software development team was even easier. Unfortunately, this lead to many CIOs losing control over the application development process. Any department with a PC, a BASIC programmer, or maybe even just someone good at spreadsheet macros, could be in the software development business. When IT department backlogs ...
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