Joseph_Jack_Spatafora@cup.portal.com (05/29/89)
I am currently confronting a need to train a number of my existing
staff in Ada, a language that I must acknowledge we have little or
no background. This need is based upon our desire to assist in the
conversion of an application our firm helped develop in VAX/COBOL,
and is now being converted to Ada for use by the government.
My staff in this case are journeyman programmer/analysts with skill
in the VAX/COBOL and "c" arena, but with virtually no Ada exposure.
We intend to recruit a number of additional staff with Ada skills,
but also wish to utilize the application knowledge, we developed in
the initial software development project.
My major areas of need are:
1. Advice in regard to the selection and use of
Ada training packages;
(preferably operational in a PC environment)
2. Suggestions in regard to where to locate and
recruit experienced Ada personnel, ideally with
commercial or manufacturing backgrounds;
3. Feedback in regard to reasonable levels of
compensation for staff involved in a long term
project ( >20 months );
4. Estimates based upon anyone's direct experience
about desirable ratios of staff in this case where
an existing system is being converted by a team of
staff composed of pre-existing staff with the
Application background knowledge and Ada Language
specialists that will lack exposure to the previous
software development effort;
Any advice or knowledge you can share in regard to one or more of
the above items will be genuinely appreciated. If it is easier to
reach me directly by phone please feel free to call me COLLECT.
Thanks.
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Joseph J. Spatafora (813) 886-8700
Technical Manager M-F 8:30-5:00PM
Computer Dynamics, Inc. of Florida
2701 N. Rocky Point Dr., Suite 800
Tampa, Florida 33607 FAX (813) 882-4020