Note that while software engineers might estimate tasks in hours, software companies think in terms of team-sprints or team-quarters, and a team-quarter very plausibly costs about 3X what the median team member would quote their yearly compensation as. (8 members; 50% overhead)
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“What’s the scope of something you’d expect would take a software team a quarter?” There is a point in the life of a SaaS company where that is not yet an absurdly small amount of time to redesign the main dashboard for a user.
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When I was in product development I quoted the cost at 100k per month of work for one agile team. Something that seems small but takes the team half a sprint to ship suddenly costs 25k. So it better be good...
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so you're saying it would be cheaper if instead of professionals I use amateurs?
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It really depends on the age of the project and the organization making the changes. Poorly designed codebases with obstructionist deployment processes can cost far more to make a change.
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http://blog.celerity.com/the-true-cost-of-a-software-bug … the author here asserts that the difference just between a bug caught early and a bug caught late is 100x which I thought was interesting
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Tbh i find these costs quite low. Was expecting far higher than that.
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@shl highly variable depending on org structure, though. if you're willing to trust individual engineers to implement and ship changes on their own then changes cost a lot less then if you do everything through a team structure -
this is a cost/risk tradeoff, but most people seem to sit on the low risk end and try to pull the cost down rather than sit on the low cost end and try to pull the risk down
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Can’t forget long term costs for new features / changes either!
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