Re: Development: A Structured Problem Area?

Andrew Hunt wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-06-15 at 21:33, Edmund Schweppe wrote:
>>> In the meantime, we still need to convince the 40% of software
>>> teams in the US who *don't* use version control that they should,
>>> and likewise the 70% who don't do daily builds. I *do* know of
>>> some books they should read :-)
>> Andy, do you know if there's a handy online citation for such
>> numbers?
> I have them here somewhere, in my secretarially-challenged office :-)
> There's an upcoming interview with Dave and me on O'Reilly's OnLamp
> next week, and I know the citations are listed at the end of the
> interview.

Great. Let us know when it goes online. Maybe you could even put a link 
on your site (hint, hint :-)

> Slightly more interesting is the fact that daily builds in India are 
> closer to 100%.

Interesting. Greenfield effect? Sampling bias? CMMi and ISO9000x 
actually being good for something? Curious minds want to dig into the 
references and find out!

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