[Info-vax] OT: Is Software Management Obsolete?

[Neil Rieck]

Is Software Management Obsolete?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tim-berry/is-software-management-ob_b_241970.html

Quote: What DeMarco seems to be saying -- and, at least, what I am
definitely saying -- is that control is ultimately illusory on
software development projects. If you want to move your project
forward, the only reliable way to do that is to cultivate a deep sense
of software craftsmanship and professionalism around it. The guys and
gals who show up every day eager to hone their craft, who are
passionate about building stuff that matters to them, and perhaps in
some small way, to the rest of the world -- those are the people and
projects that will ultimately succeed.

This applies to many big corporation projects as well as Ontario's
recent eHealth debacle.

Neil Rieck
Kitchener/Waterloo/Cambridge,
Ontario, Canada.
http://www3.sympatico.ca/n.rieck/