Timeline for What happened to the "Surgical Team" pattern from "The Mythical Man-Month"?
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| Jul 22, 2019 at 22:27 | comment | added | Bob Jarvis - Слава Україні | "...and a few people go by it" - and more than a few people do the opposite because they're so much smarter!!! (They're the same people that don't normalize a relational database, that don't use structured programming techniques, etc) | |
| Jul 22, 2019 at 21:43 | comment | added | Ryan | In response to your comment about making the same errors over and over, the Wikipedia article for the book has a quote from the author you might like: The tendency for managers to repeat such errors in project development led Brooks to quip that his book is called "The Bible of Software Engineering", because "everybody quotes it, some people read it, and a few people go by it". | |
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| Aug 10, 2017 at 3:16 | comment | added | Bob Jarvis - Слава Україні | Ah, the good old days - when every IBM computer leased came with source code for the operating system AND an on-site IBM support engineer to keep the dang thing running. They may not have been the best computers, but support..? IBM beat everyone else, hands down. | |
| Aug 10, 2017 at 0:27 | comment | added | Joe McMahon | Having been an IBM systems programmer during that period, it was common to have very tightly defined roles in the team,with a specialty in a particular part of the OS. The person in each of those roles would be expected to know or learn everything there was to know about it, and act as support staff to any of the other experts. We essentially ended up with a surgical team per member of the staff, each with their own specialty. | |
| Aug 9, 2017 at 16:28 | comment | added | Peter M. - stands for Monica | UUGE is also spelled as YUGE, as used by Donald Trump :-) | |
| Aug 8, 2017 at 16:05 | comment | added | zzzzBov | @WayneConrad vernacular for huge. | |
| Aug 8, 2017 at 15:47 | comment | added | Wayne Conrad | What in the world does "UUGE" mean? Great answer, by the way. | |
| Aug 7, 2017 at 13:44 | comment | added | user22815 | If anyone reading this has the 20th Anniversary edition of the book, it is worth reading the new preface and the new chapter 19. While even the 20th anniversary edition is over 20 years old as of 2017, the author points out several of the assertions in this answer which are often overlooked in the rush to summarize the whole book as "adding engineers to an already-late project makes it even more late." | |
| Aug 7, 2017 at 3:36 | history | answered | Bob Jarvis - Слава Україні | CC BY-SA 3.0 |