Comments on: Negative Productivity http://markmclaren.com/blog/2007/10/29/negative-productivity/ Real-World Software Development Wed, 19 Nov 2008 03:42:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Jo Thomas http://markmclaren.com/blog/2007/10/29/negative-productivity/#comment-9478 Jo Thomas Thu, 16 Oct 2008 08:23:39 +0000 http://markmclaren.com/blog/2007/10/29/negative-productivity/#comment-9478 Gosh, a bit of a late response, but I only came across your website by accident and was interested in this article as I am current involved in a project using Agile and overseas contractors (in-house) where we suffered dramatically on the quality of programmers and I would agree with the FIVE, and yes, it is higher (particularly in the UK) for BAs. Most of my experience was gained in Australia where it was important to be a high-quality BA - having returned to the UK, I am shocked at the pedigree of many BAs which, in large organisations, seem to be legacy system subject matter experts of a large migration project. Once the project is complete, they are suddenly tagged with the title of BA and, without training or experience are let loose on serious software development. One organisation I have worked at even tweaked its methodology to box the BA into a really small part of the project lifecycle. (To give my spin on the Vista Alt+Tab, there is only value when you have multiple files of the same type open - a little tooltip-esq filename would be all that was required to make the original functionality better :-)) Gosh, a bit of a late response, but I only came across your website by accident and was interested in this article as I am current involved in a project using Agile and overseas contractors (in-house) where we suffered dramatically on the quality of programmers and I would agree with the FIVE, and yes, it is higher (particularly in the UK) for BAs.

Most of my experience was gained in Australia where it was important to be a high-quality BA - having returned to the UK, I am shocked at the pedigree of many BAs which, in large organisations, seem to be legacy system subject matter experts of a large migration project. Once the project is complete, they are suddenly tagged with the title of BA and, without training or experience are let loose on serious software development. One organisation I have worked at even tweaked its methodology to box the BA into a really small part of the project lifecycle.

(To give my spin on the Vista Alt+Tab, there is only value when you have multiple files of the same type open - a little tooltip-esq filename would be all that was required to make the original functionality better :-))

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