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For this installment of PBOTW (Pete's Book Of The Whatever[^]), I'd like to reintroduce you to an old favourite, or introduce you to it for the first time if you are unaware of this book. The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering / Edition 2 by Frederick P. Brooks Jr.[^]. This is not a modern book, by any standards, but it had a profound impact on the way I viewed the estimation process. The essays in this book are generally still as relevant today as the day they were first written, which shows how little has really changed in the software development world from a day to day development point of view.
In a nutshell, the main essay looks at the diminishing returns you get when throwing resources at a problem. So, if it takes one man a month to solve a problem, throwing two people at the same problem won't get it done in half a month. Strangely enough, many managers still fail to grasp this simple concept.
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Does it also cover the modern management paradigm: "If it takes ten men ten months to produce something, and I fire half of them, it'll be done in half the time"?
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Also, "If I outsource the work this[^] no longer applies & I can slash costs"
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My old bosses should have read this book. Perhaps then they finally would realize why they stumble from one 'success' to the next, why their customers will soon stand in front of their doors with torches and pitchforks and why it is too late for them.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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I first read it when it was brand spanking new, mid 70s I guess. Reread it every year or two. As you say, timeless.
Cheers,
Peter
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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An excellent read. I also found "Managing the Software Process" by Watts Humphrey influenced my thinking about estimating software development tasks very useful. In particular when estimating at earlier stages of the development cycle as compared to later when specific tasks are more concrete and understood.
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<charset =="" "utf-8"="">π·πΌπΌπ΅π―π―π¨π― (9)
Hints:
1. Think of things like pig, hive and Hadoop
2. You could also go to them in real life and watch them caring
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I dunno how to display those characters properly -.-!
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modified 13-May-16 7:29am.
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INNKEEPER
...maybe?
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Close but not 100% correct
6B
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Is it beekeeper ?
"I had the right to remain silent, but I didn't have the ability!"
Ron White, Comedian
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6B also a good direction but not on the big view
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Then it is zookeeper!
"I had the right to remain silent, but I didn't have the ability!"
Ron White, Comedian
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We have a winner!
9B
YOu are up on Tuesday! (Since Monday is holiday?)
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Monday will be fine!
"I had the right to remain silent, but I didn't have the ability!"
Ron White, Comedian
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Zoologist?
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3B now it goes the other way round XD
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Movie Quote Of The Day
We have a saying in my country - don't blame the baker, when the butcher bakes the bread.
Which movie?
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Meat Loaf: To Hell and Back
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The italian Job
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Wait a second!!
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Sweeny Todd, Buns of Wrath
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Microsoft mobile ?
Thanks,
Milind
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The Batchery: Beeffins Menu
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