--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Ben Hogan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> And is there support for your (excellent) metaphor that software
> development is a cooperative game of communication and invention?
One the one hand, I suspect a metaphor is by definition only a
suggestion. One the other hand, I propose "sw dev as a cooperative
game" as an economic and steering model, so it is more than a
metaphor.
Actually I don't know how to "test" it, other than personal
observation as to whether people and projects respond in an effective
fashion. In my highly biased opinion, people and projects do respond
well to the model. I've love it if someone could work out a way to
test it. (I suspect that would be like having asked, in 1968, to test
the idea of sw dev as an engineering discipline. It took 30 years
for anything looking like data to roll in enough to refute it).
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