Ayup. One of the odder moments of my professional life, back when I worked for Lucent, was being asked to find ways to integrate the Bell Labs team into our software development team.
The short answer is “I failed.” We made a game effort with respect to the real-time elements of the converged prepaid/postpaid rating system we were building at the time, but ultimately it just didn’t work… we had about a week’s worth of computer science we needed done, and about ten person-years of computer programming, and the two just aren’t fungible. They were nice guys, though.
Ayup.
One of the odder moments of my professional life, back when I worked for Lucent, was being asked to find ways to integrate the Bell Labs team into our software development team.
Wow. What happened next?
The short answer is “I failed.” We made a game effort with respect to the real-time elements of the converged prepaid/postpaid rating system we were building at the time, but ultimately it just didn’t work… we had about a week’s worth of computer science we needed done, and about ten person-years of computer programming, and the two just aren’t fungible. They were nice guys, though.