On Fri, February 16, 2007 11:19 pm, Christian Seberino wrote: > > On Fri, February 16, 2007 4:13 pm, Stewart Stremler wrote: >> My experience with process-oriented projects is that they get rigid and >> produce voluminious crap, and non-process-oriented projects either fall >> into chaos, or rise up to the challenge to deliver something worthwhile, >> but probably not repeatable in the sense of "can hand off to a team of >> mediocre programmers and expect anything nearly as good". > > I agree with you and this is curious. It sounds like what you are saying > is that systems engineering can't make up for individual deficiencies if > anything. What is needed if I understand you correctly is great > programmers to be left virtually alone to do their thing. Sounds a lot > like an open source project doesn't it? > > Chris > >
I still believe there has to be a process to take someone who has the potential to be great and make that person great. We do it for singers and dancers and baseball players, so we should be able to do it for programmers. We can't (as a society that expects neat things to be developed and supported) just rely on those who are especially great to emerge. -- Lan Barnes SCM Analyst Linux Guy Tcl/Tk Enthusiast Biodiesel Brewer -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
