TechRepublic has provided a spreadsheet model to help you determine the right number of people in your IT shop. In their approach, they focus on one category of staff at a time. In each category, a few key questions are used to focus the analysis: 1. Programmers Is there a separation between application development and [...]
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IT Staffing Model
Posted in analyst, helpdesk, model, personel, programmer, spreadsheet, staffing, system admin, tech support, tagged spreadsheet, staffing on December 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Proportion of Software Testers to Developers
Posted in programmer, software, staffing, testing, Uncategorized, tagged programmer, software, staffing, testing on August 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Cem Kaner, a professor at the Florida Institute of Technology, has done research on the ratio of software testers to software developers. His presentation entitled “Managing the Proportion of Testers to Other Developers” is partially based on a meeting of the Software Test Managers Roundtable (STMR 3) in Fall 2001. The study found that: – [...]
Benchmark: Ratio of Analysts to Programmers
Posted in analyst, programmer, staffing, tagged analyst, programmer, ratio, staffing on January 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
According to Tim Bryce (Managing Director of M. Bryce & Associates), If systems analysis is performed correctly, programmer productivity should improve as analysts should be providing good specifications for application assignments. In the absence of systems analysts, considerable time is lost by the programmer who has to second-guess what the end-user wants. Inevitably, this leads [...]
