That's just what he wants you to think, so people won't think he's Stan Cox.
(What have I just started?)
-----Original Message-----
From: Fred T. Sanders [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2001 2:07 PM
To: Fusebox
Subject: Re: Fwd: extreme programming
its horse not house
----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Nelson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Fusebox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2001 11:35 AM
Subject: Re: Fwd: extreme programming
> YOU'RE DAMN RIGHT!!!
>
> i've been mulling over the design of a tool like this for almost a year
> and half, I built a version of it about a year ago for my own personal
> use, it improved my productivity by about 2-3 times, but lacked in many
> areas. When Hal opened my eyes to so many killer project management
> techniques I started designing a new version. i'm almost done.
>
> Talk about rockin' the rockin' house!! I plan on making this tool (not
> the code...the tool) freely available (at least for a while).
>
> Steve
>
> Marc Gadsdon wrote:
> >
> > What we need is an open source application that allows the project
architect
> > to upload a bunch of fuses (all Fusedoced, query sims etc) and have
> > registered developers check out files to build the fuses. Then the
architect
> > simply does her daily builds using test harnesses. If everything checks
out
> > then the developer that built the fuse gets paid. We could all get
through
> > monster amounts of work that way.
> >
> > Marc
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Steve Nelson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: 05 April 2001 04:17
> > To: Fusebox
> > Subject: Re: Fwd: extreme programming
> >
> > i want to take your 2 month development time down to 1-2 days (after the
> > specification is complete). This would be done by having anywhere from
> > 1-100 Fusecoders on the project. According to the mythical man month,
> > this isn't possible because adding manpower to a project won't speed up
> > development. Common sense tells me that it's because no has figured out
> > how to linearly manage people.
> >
> > Think about this... If an olympic sprinter could run their sprinting
> > speed for a mile the world record would be under 3 minutes.
> >
> > The reason this hasn't been done is that the human body can't pump
> > enough blood and suck in enough air. BUT! If the human body was
> > redesigned to solve those problems, the 3 minute mile could be possible.
> >
> > I'm about halfway through this book for the second time and I'm
> > realizing that almost all of these problems Mr. Brooks has come across
> > could potentially be solved with a handful of very sophisticated project
> > management tools and a standardized methodology which we have already
> > developed.
> >
> > Steve
> >
> > "Janty.com" wrote:
> > >
> > > Well, like I said .. adding a little exthreme programming along with a
lot
> > > of Fusebox, decreased our production time from 6 months of sloppy,
barely
> > > stitched together code, to 2 months of good solid stuff :) I think
you
> > > won't have any trouble disproving it, in the web dev comunity at least
:)
> > >
> > > Todd
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Steve Nelson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > To: "Fusebox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2001 10:38 PM
> > > Subject: Re: Fwd: extreme programming
> > >
> > > > The reason I've been studying extreme programming is my latest goal
in
> > > > life is to disprove the mythical man month. The mythical man month
is a
> > > > book that was written back in 1974 that explains that adding more
> > > > manpower to a project does not linearly make the project go faster.
> > > >
> > > > I think with the combination of the concepts we've all come up with
in
> > > > this Fusebox community and the ideas the extreme programming
community
> > > > has come up with along with a handful of management tools, I think
it
> > > > could be possible to break free of the mythical man month.
> > > >
> > > > Steve Nelson
> > > > Try my CFML code tester for free!
> > > > http://www.secretagents.com/tools/stomp/
> > > > (804) 825-6093
> > >
> > >
> >
>
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