+1 for sup
On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 7:21 PM, Peter Humphrey
<pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org> wrote:
> On Wednesday 22 February 2012 20:14:05 Alan McKinnon wrote:
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>> You'd have to read "The Mythical ManMonth" to truly do it justice (it's a
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>> really good book for developers btw).
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> That book used to be required reading in my coding days (70s and 80s).
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> On our projects we used to say: the first 50% of the project takes the first
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> Then we'd go out to tender when the project was cancelled at board level.
> (This was in the electricity supply industry.)
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> As Alan said, in software development nobody ever learns the lessons they
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> Rgds
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> Peter Linux Counter 5290, 1994-04-23
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