RE: IBM "Bible" of Product/Project Development

I don't know if I have a better memory, the part about whether to use
assembly or a high level language just stuck out in my mind, its kind of
like some of the discussions that we have here. Should we use ILE, SQL
or any of the various fancy new fangled techniques? On the one hand
people will have to learn something new, and their methods will have to
change, on the other hand productivity will go up. I think it is a
pretty good analogy. 

Chris

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You seem to have a much better memory than I, Chris, but I do remember 
that it was "must" reading when I started 30+ years ago.


If I do recall correctly (too many gray cells have bitten the dust at 
CUDS), his primary point (and thus the title) was that they tried to 
speak up the project by throwing more bodies at it.  Apparently there's 
this thing called "diminishing returns."


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Chris Payne wrote:

>Are you talking about the Mythical Man Month? It's a great book, and
>much of what was written years and years ago is still very accurate.
Two
>rather funny points, in one section he says that modularization is a
>fad, and he does not thing it will work well (If you get a more recent
>version he has an addendum where he states that history has show him to
>be incorrect on that point) and the other is that he encourages you to
>use a high level language instead of writing all of your code in
>assembly, which I don't think is a decision that many of us are
>considering any more. Apart from those two points it really does have a
>great deal of good information.
>
>Chris
>
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>[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Condon, Mike
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>Subject: IBM "Bible" of Product/Project Devlopment
>
>I've read about an IBM "Bible" of Product/Project Development written
by
>one of the heads of the project team for development for OS36, etc.
>Does anyone recall the title, author, etc.?
>
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