Observations on why we get paid (’Why we get paid’-Series)
October 20, 2007
Here are some observations on why we get paid.
From a Development Company’s perspective:
- Making A smaller increases the number of projects that make economical sense
- Making B bigger means giving the customer a competitive advantage
- Making B bigger is what Software Development companies generally don’t care about
- New technology has to either make A smaller or B bigger or both.
From a Customers perspecive:
- Trying to make A smaller is what outsourcing is about
- B is harder to quantify than A. And A is already very hard to quantify.
- Customers don’t spend enough time quantifying B.
- Optimizing A doesn’t make sense if you sacrifice B
Do you see any others? I’d love to hear them in the comments!