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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."

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  1. Re:strawman by Shados · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I had to quit a job because of that. My boss kept asking me to make prototypes to prove concepts, which I did...then ask me to build entire ERP and CRM systems around the prototypes, which obviously was impossible within the constraints given, and definately impossible to keep maintainable, and mostly secure (they were web based systems exposed to the net, and the prototypes were not security aware...). I quit rather than take the responsability behind that...