Comments on: Saving lost developer time with better hardware http://blog.punchbarrel.com/2008/10/05/saving-lost-developer-time-with-better-hardware/ Frank Carver's musings about software and life Mon, 08 Mar 2010 13:52:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Robert http://blog.punchbarrel.com/2008/10/05/saving-lost-developer-time-with-better-hardware/comment-page-1/#comment-450 Robert Mon, 06 Oct 2008 00:37:48 +0000 http://blog.punchbarrel.com/?p=609#comment-450 Developer costs (inc. overhead) ~= $100,000/year ~= $2000/week ~= $50/hour Better hardware costs ~= $4000 (or about $2000 vs cheap hardware) Time lost to slow builds, juggling insufficient memory, etc = ~2hrs/week ~= $100/week Productivity improvement from things like larger monitors, etc = ~5% ~= $100/week Total improvement from better hardware ~= $200/week. Time to re-coup investment => 20 weeks (for differential price) or 40 weeks (for full price, if you've already got the cheap hardware) The rest of the business case is about justifying the various numbers. Developer costs (inc. overhead) ~= $100,000/year ~= $2000/week ~= $50/hour

Better hardware costs ~= $4000 (or about $2000 vs cheap hardware)

Time lost to slow builds, juggling insufficient memory, etc = ~2hrs/week ~= $100/week
Productivity improvement from things like larger monitors, etc = ~5% ~= $100/week
Total improvement from better hardware ~= $200/week.

Time to re-coup investment => 20 weeks (for differential price) or 40 weeks (for full price, if you’ve already got the cheap hardware)

The rest of the business case is about justifying the various numbers.

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