Long live Mircosoft.
W. Ed Hammond, Ph.D.
Director, Duke Center for Health Informatics
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On 22/11/2010 07:25, Grahame Grieve wrote:
btw, I do usually travel on planes designed by an opt-in merit
based democracy. I certainly wouldn't chose to fly on one
designed in a totalitarian/autocratic system - it's too hard for
a single person to get everything right. It's not at all clear that
the plane parable is even accurate, let alone relevant.
I hope not ;-) It might be said that planes are designed and engineered by
meritocracies (rule by the competent), but not democracies (rule by
everyone). When I said 'engineering' was like totalitarianism, I did not
mean it in the literal sense of a single ruler, but in the sense that the
social structure relates to defined job descriptions, choice of competent
people to fill them, and the use of reliable methodologies. Voting in the
democratic sense features very little.
I am sitting in a symposium right now listening to Michael Jackson, Barry
Boehm, David Parnas, Bertrand Meyer, Erich Gamma, and other notables from
the software engineering universe. It is quite clear that the
(non-democractic) methods of proper software and systems engineering have
barely featured in the creation of many e-health standards we live with
today.
- thomas
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