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Mark Shuttleworth on companies and free softwareMark Shuttleworth on companies and free softwarePosted May 22, 2011 0:30 UTC (Sun) by pflugstad (subscriber, #224)In reply to: Mark Shuttleworth on companies and free software by ingwa Parent article: Mark Shuttleworth on companies and free software
According to the "Mythical Man Month" it's 3x to make it usable by others, and/or 3x to be a reusable component in a system (more or less), or 9x for both:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mythical_Man-Month#Proje...
This is covered in the first 5 pages of the book, which can usually be read online from Amazon. And it jives very well with every software project I've been involved in over ~20 years.
Anyone who does software as a profession needs to have read this book. And if your manager has not - find a new manager.
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