There are long-run opportunities here. I'm seriously considering starting a consulting firm that specializes in reengineering failed projects - something like FVBP Inc. (Failed VB projects , Inc.)


>There was an interesting article in the LA Times business section yesterday about the current state of IS departments. It was actually kind of scary to see in print what our industry has come down to.
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>The gist of the article was how money has skyrocketed to the top of the list of job requirements for programmers. Creating good code, or the learning experience has plumetted in the ranking. There was a term coined by McConnell in one of his latest books that basically describes how the current state of technology is to get a few programmers together and code. No design spec necessary. No more 9-5 type stuff, this is burning the midnight oil heads down coding.
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>Of course you could expect boatloads of errors, but since people are working all day long, no problem to fix them. The goal is not to produce award winning software. It's to get a program that works good enough to show off to potential investors.
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>Management was partially to blame as there are more and more Dilbert managers coming on-line who have no clue about the developement process (or anything related to programming for that matter).
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>The article signed off by saying how we are probably going to have to pay for this type of environment in 10-20 yrs, much like the Y2K histeria of yore.
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>Is this really what it's all come down to. Or is there just another world out there populated by the hotshot GenX folks that we are just not a part of?
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>Pf