Hey Charlie, I have used the C4 model in a corporate project in a private company. It has a lot of brilliant ideas and novel benefits, however there are certain things that you should be aware of before using it. like other things, it has pros and cons. In this email I will try to explain my thoughts and experience about it. Of course, my understanding of C4 might not be fully valid and correct, I ask others to correct my understanding about it if I describe something wrong.
The first positive point that comes to my mind is that it really appreciates diversity in the team. by its democratic model, it enables everyone to have equal voices and it really helps collective ownership of the project. Besides that, it has a very simple and understandable model for every developer, it's really easy to apply it in a project without worry about complex branching models and different kinds of tasks. One novel idea in C4 is that every change should address a problem, everything's a problem, there is no distinguishing between Task, Story, Feature, Bug ... The above positive points in C4 make it a really useful model in developing an open-source project, however its too democratic approach may not be suitable in all environments. For example, in our case, we had a lot of important issues at hand, a rigid roadmap defined by product managers, and limited resources. C4 does not tell you how you should prioritize your tasks in the team. Of course, the approach that "everything is a problem" would help you a lot to find out most important problems in the project and address them first, although it's a little hard to communicate it with product managers, and also, it requires every team members to have a solid understanding of the business needs and the whole big picture, it's not an impossible thing, but it requires a very mature and pro-active culture. Maybe having some additional principles to prioritizing tasks and making consensus about most important issues to work on, could improve it in this kind of situation. -- Best Regards, Esa On Fri, Feb 5, 2021 at 7:59 PM Charles West <crw...@ncsu.edu> wrote: > Hello! > > I'm a longtime user of ZMQ and fan of the project. I've been reviewing > Pieter's writings about the C4 process and would like to use it for the > (robotics/Godot/machine learning based) open source project I am hoping to > launch in the next few months. > > Before I commit to that though, I was wondering if the awesome people of > the ZMQ mailing list might be willing to tell me about their experience? > > Does it work as well as Pieter said it did? > > Biggest advantages over other processes you've worked with? > > Biggest problems you've run into? > > Would you recommend it for a new project? > > Thanks, > Charlie West > _______________________________________________ > zeromq-dev mailing list > zeromq-dev@lists.zeromq.org > https://lists.zeromq.org/mailman/listinfo/zeromq-dev >
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