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Re:Why do business analysts and PMs get higher salaries than... by trobertson on Wednesday June 20, 2012 @04:25PM (#4138932)
I realize this is an extreme case, but you should check out Valve's corporate structure. No one has a "title", everyone can move to whatever project that want to work on, and they still turn out excellent software.
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Re:Why do business analysts and PMs get higher salaries than... by brazzy on Thursday June 21, 2012 @04:45AM (#4141061)
And I'd bet you that every one of their projects with more than 10 people working on it has people doing mainly what is clearly recognizable as project management or business analysis.
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Re:Why do business analysts and PMs get higher salaries than... by mprovost on Wednesday June 20, 2012 @04:39PM (#4138985)
...but not on schedule.
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Re:Why do business analysts and PMs get higher salaries than... by scotty79 on Wednesday June 20, 2012 @04:43PM (#4138997)
Nothing ever get's built on schedule or within budget.
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Re:Why do business analysts and PMs get higher salaries than... by unimpressive on Wednesday June 20, 2012 @05:01PM (#4139072)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valve_Time#.22Valve_Time.22

Yes. But Valve is a bit of an extreme case.

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Re:Why do business analysts and PMs get higher salaries than... by scotty79 on Wednesday June 20, 2012 @05:11PM (#4139131)
Just extremely honest about it.
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Re:Why do business analysts and PMs get higher salaries than... by unimpressive on Wednesday June 20, 2012 @05:31PM (#4139222)
While I wouldn't necessarily disagree with that analysis, Valve time has more to do with announcing release dates and then going way over them than it does not shipping on internal deadlines.
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Re:Why do business analysts and PMs get higher salaries than... by sparknlaunch on Thursday June 21, 2012 @02:32AM (#4140815)
>> Nothing ever get's built on schedule or within budget.

If anything, things always deliver on schedule and within budget. This is due to massive scope creep (scope reduction) and reduced quality.

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Re:Why do business analysts and PMs get higher salaries than... by tanoku on Wednesday June 20, 2012 @07:49PM (#4139782)
Sorry, what schedule?
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