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Mob Software

Posted by michael on from the get-the-torches dept.

Hell O'World writes: "Wow! Mob Software." A concise submitter, how refreshing. To elaborate: an essay whose author argues that large software projects should be built, well, by a mob.

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  1. A bit dated... by Lizard_King · · Score: 5, Informative

    Richard Gabriel gave this speech at theOOPSLA 2000 Conference (Object Oriented Progamming, Systems, Languages & Applications). There are some other interesting keynote presentations there including a piece on Adaptive Software Engineering (PDF Alert!!).

    You can download a .pdf of the essay, or if you can't view pdf's, check out the cover.

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  2. OfficeVision. by jcr · · Score: 3, Informative

    IBM Project. $900 million spent, NOTHING delivered.

    -nuff said.

    -jcr

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  3. Well that's informative... :-/ by HongPong · · Score: 4, Informative
    Logically, slashdot is supposed to summarize news, not say basically nothing. All right, software should be developed by a mob. How is that significantly different from how things are today with mid-sized OSS projects? Come on, Tim, give us more than a single thought. What are the merits of this essay? Some details? How does it contrast with other OSS development models?

    I get the news I pay for, I guess.

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    --hongpong.com