mark@DRD.Com (Mark Lawrence) (09/01/90)
From: _Datamation_, 15 August 1990 AUSTIN, TX -- According to recently completed study by the Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corp. (MCC) research consortium, most organizations would still rather spend their dollars and resources to acquire software development tools and gadgets rather than to recruit, train and motivate top software developers. That's a mistake, because the best programmers are as much as 20 times more productive than the worst, the report from the MCC's software technology program says. The program also posits what it calls a "software human resource maturity model." Fashioned after the five-part software organization maturity model developed by Carnegie Mellon University's Software Engineering Institure, the MCC model says that software organizations fall into one fo five levels of maturity in the way they manage their software development staffs. At the bottom level, "software personnel [are] treated as a purchasable commodity." the study says. At the top level, an organization has developed sophisticated human resource practices for hiring good software developers, assessing their morale and inspiring them to produce. The best organizations can also directly correlate such management practices to productivity. Not surprisingly, the MCC study says thaty most organizations still operate on the bottom level of the maturity model. -- mark@DRD.Com uunet!apctrc!drd!mark$B!J%^!<%/!!!&%m!<%l%s%9!K(B