NEW YORK (IDG) -- U.S. programmers, their jobs protected by the labor
    shortage, have become complacent and less productive than their
    international peers, according to a study of 16,000 information
    technology professionals in 28 nations.

"Labor shortage", eh?  How old IS that article, anyway?

Large US software producers are on something of a "quality kick" these
days, it appears to me.  It's really trivial for a large project to slow
down the overall software process 5 or 10x to get 2x "better quality."
That doesn't really mean that code writing speed has slowed down, it's
just that there is a lot of time spent sitting on your hands waiting for
your feature A to get tested, then tested again after the merge with
feature B, then tested again after the merge with features C+D, and so
on.  It's rather depressing...

At cisco, the time from "code working" to First production software shipment
is now over a year in most cases...

BillW

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