What I remember best is his notion of a sort of surgical-team setup for software design. I suppose I'd be the tool-writer on such a team, although I might not be a complete failure as the librarian.
--- Bob Bridges, [email protected], cell 336 382-7313 /* ...this job has been a LOT of fun. Here are just a few of the things that, as a professional humor columnist, I have actually been paid to do: n) I picked up my son, Rob, at his junior high school in the Oscar Mayer Wienermobile. (Rob, now 24, claims he has forgiven me. Although, to be safe, I'm still in the federal witness-protection program.) -Dave Barry, preparing for his 2005 sabbatical */ -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Seymour J Metz Sent: Friday, November 18, 2022 09:24 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. ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [[email protected]] on behalf of Bob Bridges [[email protected]] Sent: Friday, November 18, 2022 8:42 AM 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
