Bulldozer00's Blog

Every once in awhile, it’s good to step back and take stock of your team’s accomplishments over a finite stretch of time. I did this recently, and here’s the marketing hype that I concocted:

I like to think of myself  as a pretty open dude, but I don’t think I’m (that) stupid. The product infrastructure features have been redacted just in case one of the three regular readers of this blasphemous blog happens to be an evil competitor who is intent on raping and pillaging my company.

The team that I’m very grateful to be working on did all this “stuff” in X months – starting virtually from scratch. Over the course of those X months, we had an average of M developers working full time on the project. At an average cost of C dollars per developer-month, it cost roughly X * M * C = $ to arrive at this waypoint. Of course, I (roughly) know what X, M, C, and $ are, but as further evidence that I’m not too much of a frigtard (<- kudos to Joel Spolsky for adding this term of endearment to my vocabulary!), I ain’t tellin’.

So, what about you? What has your team accomplished over a finite period of time? What did it cost? If you don’t know, then why not? Does anyone in your group/org know?