On 6/6/07, David Crooks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Just read this column this morning: > http://www.sswug.org/nlarchive.asp
"I think perhaps my favorite thing here was the seeming admittance by IT pros that long-term projects just don't work. YEEHA and No Kidding. " I have to disagree. If 80% of large projects fail, it means 1 in 5 large projects succeed. There have been some great articles in the recent Communications of the ACM that talks about some of the dynamics of project management, especially estimation. I've been priviledged to be part of several large projects that did succeed. As for "long-term" vs "large-scale" I'm probably not the only one on this board who is still supporting applications originally developed in dBASE II or FoxBase. One of the Four Amigos compared software development to construction, hardly a novel idea. For a small project, a dog house, you just go out in the back yard with a pile of lumber, hammer and saw and start building until Fido won't get wet in the rain. If the project is a little larger, say a multi-story office building, you have to devote a little more time to planning and project management. I wonder if one of the issues with bigger software development projects is that they fail to appreciate the scale of the problems they are trying to solve increase more geometrically than linearly. -- Ted Roche Ted Roche & Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
