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Tim Lister on Project Sluts and Strawmen

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the fancy-lingo-for-good-sense dept.

cramco writes "Tim Lister, principal of Atlantic Systems Guild and co-author of 'Waltzing with Bears: Managing Software Project Risk,' and 'Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams' talks about the patterns that help determine software success or failure. Patterns good and bad include project sluts, Brownian motion, the strawman, and the safety valve."

6 of 128 comments (clear)

  1. Dreamtime. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    Another good book to read is: Dreaming in code by Scott Rosenberg.

  2. Re:From TFA by corbettw · · Score: 2, Informative

    Your dad's a fool. After all, I certainly know my ex-wife's name.

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  3. Application software vs system boundaries. by bb99 · · Score: 2, Informative

    What I find laughable about this post and the Atlantic Systems Guild in general is that they seem to think that a system is only about software. A system is about far more than just application software, especially in a enterprise production environment where things like security, system monitoring, back-up/restore, operations etc are just as important as any end user experience.

    A pattern that is probably completely beyond their competence horizon is where the application developers do not know where the boundaries of the system are.

    I'd call this waltzing in the dark.

  4. Re:And you forgot one. by un1xl0ser · · Score: 2, Informative

    You don't get karma for 'Funny' posts. This is a pretty informative post, I reckon.

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  5. Re:Isn't that basic Project Management? by ContractualObligatio · · Score: 2, Informative

    The biggest problem in many companies is, in fact, getting the project instead of choosing not to get it. This is mentioned in the article and referenced in the summary.

    So you've missed the most basic thing of all.

    Be careful in oversimplifying for no purpose other than to be dismissive of somebody else's opinion or even expertise. Being modded insightful by Slashdot on people issues isn't much of an endorsement.

  6. Don't use words like that please by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    I'm posting this from a different machine to my normal office workstation because my corporate firewall blocks the slashdot front page due to that sl*t word.