On 27 July 2015 at 14:44, Pine W <[email protected]> wrote: > James, > > Thanks. > > I have a follow up question regarding project management in
general. When the length of time for development and testing are unbounded > so that product quality is the principal goal, how do you forecast needs > for human resources and financial resources? > The trite answer is "guesstimation based on professional experience", but in general the honest answer is that no-one has solved this issue in Computer Science (the snake oil salespeople who claim otherwise would protest). Instead, the industry focusses on a variety of techniques around concepts like scoping the issue (iterations), treating the symptoms (Waterfall) or recognising failure quickly (agile). It's a fascinating field, and there are many people far more qualified to opine on it than me (I never even did my PhD). My vague gut feeling is that in a century or two the world will have settled down and we'll have solved this problem, but before then we'll have outsourced such work to semi-strong AI and it'll be their issue. :-) J. -- James D. Forrester Lead Product Manager, Editing Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. [email protected] | @jdforrester _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
