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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. He forgot one by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    The whore my book pattern.

    1. Re:He forgot one by smittyoneeach · · Score: 5, Funny
      The WMB pattern is really a specialization of the traditional whore_my_product pattern.
      Specializations of the WMP pattern invoke a whore_method() call, with returns along the lines of:
      • Cheesy sex tape leak
      • Customs bust while travelling
      • Messy divorce, with optional taped calls to children
      • Wardrobe malfunction
      • Altercation with police, typically un-sober
      • Provocative language directed at another media/political personality
      • Endorsement of whacky fad (911-truther, Holocaust denier, global warming radicalism)
      The whore_method() takes no arguments initially, but always throws a very public exception, littering the cable news stack with arguments.
      In the absence of actual news, natural disasters, or death-porn, these arguments can reverberate on the cable news stack for weeks, becoming tedious.
      The quality of the product varies inversely to the tastelessness of the whore_method(): real artists just deliver the goods.
      --
      Get thee glass eyes, and, like a scurvy politician, seem to see things thou dost not.--King Lear
  2. We need more project sluts by AuMatar · · Score: 5, Funny

    Let me tell you, nothing motivates me more at work than a project groupie who will bang me for completing on time.

    What do you mean not that type of slut?

    --
    I still have more fans than freaks. WTF is wrong with you people?
    1. Re:We need more project sluts by Tihstae · · Score: 5, Funny

      I thought they were called "any woman".


      You are posting on /. Do you even know what a woman looks like without a web browser to see them?