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On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 7:21 PM, Peter Humphrey |
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<peter@××××××××××××××.org> wrote: |
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> On Wednesday 22 February 2012 20:14:05 Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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>> You'd have to read "The Mythical ManMonth" to truly do it justice (it's a |
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>> really good book for developers btw). |
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> That book used to be required reading in my coding days (70s and 80s). |
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> On our projects we used to say: the first 50% of the project takes the first |
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> 90% of the time, and the second 50% takes the other 90%. |
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> Then we'd go out to tender when the project was cancelled at board level. |
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> (This was in the electricity supply industry.) |
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> As Alan said, in software development nobody ever learns the lessons they |
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> should. |
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> Rgds |
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> Peter Linux Counter 5290, 1994-04-23 |
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