Adding more programmers to a product early in its development cycle can pay
off. You have to add them early enough to account for the learning curve,
which slows down the project for a while as the new programmers learn and
the old programmers take time to teach them.
The mistake most organizations make is adding more programmers after the
project is overdue without taking into account the learning curve.
The best way to manage a late project is to cut the project's scope. The
next best way is to extend the due date. The worst thing to do is demand
more programming in less time, because this serves to reduce the quality of
the programming.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Frank Eggink" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Orion-Interest" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, April 21, 2001 7:01 AM
Subject: On large programming teams [RE: A Swedish Idea]
> The following is one of the classic readings on programming at large. 25
years old and I
> can still recommend it:
>
> "The Mythical Man-Month" from F.P. Brooks jr.
>
> Yes, it's even 26 years old and talks about OS/360, some odd system which
is now out
> performed by your 100$ marketvalue Pentium I machine, but programming is
done by
> humans which haven't much changed over the last 25 years.
>
> On the experience I have had so far with large projects I can only agree
with him. Changing
> one of his 'laws' slightly:
>
> "Adding more programmers to a product makes the product worse".
>
>
> So far I have not found evidence against this law ;-)
>
> FE
>
> On Thursday, April 19, 2001 3:06 PM, Jay Armstrong
[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote:
> > Generally, I agree with the comment about Micro$oft quality of code,
though
> > I've seen some pretty horrible code from outside the US, too. :)
> >
> > Bill Gates may be from the US, but Micro$oft employees come from all
over
> > the world. Visit Redmond, WA, USA and you'll see for yourself.
> >
> > At 09:50 AM 4/19/01 +0200, you wrote:
> > >And Micro$oft programmers are from...?
> > >
> > >I suppose that the country they're from produce the shittiest code of
em all
> > >:)
> > >
> > >Johan
> > >----- Original Message -----
> > >From: "Joseph B. Ottinger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > >To: "Orion-Interest" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > >Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2001 4:20 PM
> > >Subject: Re: A Swedish Idea
> > >
> > >
> > >> Personally, I'm becoming more and more convinced that not only is
Sweden
> > >> full of lousy programmers, but they're all lousy in congruent ways
just to
> > >> make the rest of the world's jobs harder.
> > >>
> > >> I say we all start using Bavarian products, if only because Bavarian
names
> > >> seem to have a better vowel/consonant ratio.
> > >>
> > >> Say, Randy... what country are YOU from? (That's the leading
indicator for
> > >> quality of code...)
> > >>
> > >> On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 08:49:24AM -0500, Kemp Randy-W18971 wrote:
> > >> > Now this may be a dumb idea, and I am just thinking up brainstorms
to
> > >promote Orion, but it occurred to me that both Mysql and Orion are in
> > >Sweden. Now I don't know how big Sweden is, but perhaps a meeting
between
> > >the two teams could find ways to mutually promote or bridge the two
> > >products. Just a thought. Speaking of Sweden, since Rickard O. from
Jboss
> > >lives there, does anyone know of Magnus or Karl have meet him? In once
> > >sense, but Jboss and Orion are trying to make this EJB technology
available
> > >to more people.
> > >>
> > >> --
> > >> -----------------------------------------------------------
> > >> Joseph B. Ottinger [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > >> http://epesh.com/ IT Consultant
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
