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Re: Deity project schedule problems

Hi,
>>"Brian" == Brian White <bcwhite@verisim.com> writes:

Brian> Perhaps you have not heard of "The Mythical Man-Month".  You
Brian> cannot just add developers and expect the project to catch up.

	I do not think we have reached that point. You do not seem to
 have thouroghly read the data that the book is derived from. One
 person can't write what could be a fair to medium sized
 project. Also, the concept of the software developer as a surgeon has
 not really panned out; there are too many flaws in the (IMHO
 simplistic) resoning behind that concept. (Have you read the recent
 re-release of this work? Things change in 20 years).

	If you are already at the point where more time would be spent
 getting people upto speed and deciding what is to be done, then the
 project is seriously mismanaged. (Pardon me for being harsh; but this
 is what I do for a living -- I troubleshoot large projects. It is
 often necessary to not pull punches).

	Alist tat people cannot subscribe to is closed. I do believe
 that a tightly focussed thematic mailing list restricted to the
 developers can be made to work. You have talent out there that you
 are ignoring; and you could have retained the fiat power to kill
 endless arguments. 

	All this would be moot if things were on track. So sorry, the
 perception at this end is that things are not on track. The veil of
 secrecy does little to disabuse me.

	manoj

 % cd /tmp
 % cvs export -D today deity
 % tar zfc deity.tar.gz deity
 % scp deity.tar.gz \
   deity@master.debian.org:/home/Debian/ftp/private/project/Incoming/deity.tar.gz
-- 
"Plan to throw one away.  You will anyway."
- Fred Brooks, "The Mythical Man Month"
How does a project get to be a year late? ... One day at a time.
-- Frederick Brooks, Jr., The Mythical Man Month
Manoj Srivastava               <url:mailto:srivasta@acm.org>
Mobile, Alabama USA            <url:http://www.datasync.com/%7Esrivasta/>


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