Solving%20the%20CF%20Programmer%20Shortage

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Solving the CF Programmer Shortage

• The Business Case for Fusebox

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Such a bad deal?

• Job security
• Pick and choose from several job offers
• Higher salaries
• Easier to negotiate for better perks

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If shortage becomes a crisis
ColdFusion?

• Business will choose another technology that is
  seen as having greater support.
• Hint Begins with an M and ends in a t.
• Cf ? niche player

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And if that happens
High salaries
Pick your job
Great perqs
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Is there a programmer shortage?

• There is only a developer crisis if projects
• cost too much
• take too long to complete
• dont work as they should

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Solution A Cloning existing coders
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Solution BImprove the process

• Make development
• cheaper
• better
• faster

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Common development plan
Project Start
Deployment deadline
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Fusebox development plan
Cheaper
Project Start
Better
Faster
Deployment deadline
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Critical path
Dependent Events
Independent Events
B4
A2
C2
D2
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Risky critical path
D2
A2
C2
E5
F2
G2
H4
I6
J7
B4
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Risky project visibility
Ideal project complete visibility
Risky project low visibility
Thanks to Steve McConnell for this excellent
analogy
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Fusebox critical path
Cheaper
Better
Faster
D2
F2
B4
A2
C2
E5
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Fusebox project visibility
Cheaper
Better
Faster
Ideal project complete visibility
Fusebox project very good visibility
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What about better?
Cheaper
Better
Faster

• Fusebox
• Supports code re-use
• Code has already been tested
• Supports unit integrated testing
• Bugs discovered and stomped as soon as
  possibleby the person who originally wrote code
• Increases project visibility

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What about way better?
Cheaper
Better
Faster

• Wireframe/prototype/architecting process echoes
  natural iterative nature of defining requirements
• Lets user balance between speed of deployment and
  completeness of functionality/bells whistles
• Protects company from selling a Toyota and having
  to deliver a Porsche.

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Is there a CF programmer shortage?
Seat-of- the-pants
Fusebox
You decide