It also illustrated blind spots; he attributed the disinterest in TESTRAN to competition from TSO, which came later, rather than to a user hostile design. My initial impression of TESTRAN was that it was inferior to its equivalent in IBSYS/IBJOB.
OTOH, his comments on over staffing a late project were spot on. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of Bob Bridges [robhbrid...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, November 18, 2022 8:42 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Fred P. Brooks passed away Somewhere in the early '80s my boss at the time passed around copies of "The Mythical Man-Month" for all his people to read. So often in such cases it's a book that set the giver on fire and he's disappointed when no one else gets the vision. But for me at least, I was pleasantly surprised to find how interesting it was, and it's had an influence on my thinking about software development. --- Bob Bridges, robhbrid...@gmail.com, cell 336 382-7313 /* When a man is getting better he understands more and more clearly the evil that is still left in him. When a man is getting worse, he understands his own badness less and less. A moderately bad man knows he is not very good; a thoroughly bad man thinks he is all right. This is common sense, really. You understand sleep when you are awake, not while you are sleeping. You can see mistakes in arithmetic when your mind is working properly; while you are making them you cannot see them. You can understand the nature of drunkenness when you are sober, not when you are drunk. Good people know about both good and evil; bad people do not know about either. -C S Lewis, _Christian Behavior_ */ -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On Behalf Of Support, DUNNIT SYSTEMS LTD. Sent: Friday, November 18, 2022 04:46 As of this posting, Wikipedia is still not updated. https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FFred_Brooks&data=05%7C01%7Csmetz3%40gmu.edu%7C3bdc1125de2b41769c8608dac96ada96%7C9e857255df574c47a0c00546460380cb%7C0%7C0%7C638043758029048520%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C2000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=Ugr3wNBo87kGRVsIlyftQ2fWpXxq9WAAWszjnVXrG3Q%3D&reserved=0 Twitter: https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2FSteveBellovin%2Fstatus%2F1593414068634734592&data=05%7C01%7Csmetz3%40gmu.edu%7C3bdc1125de2b41769c8608dac96ada96%7C9e857255df574c47a0c00546460380cb%7C0%7C0%7C638043758029048520%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C2000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=1VDKcPbgBakxZ7O7jmiZV9adm8ovr7bZdmbQgRX%2FlPo%3D&reserved=0 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
