Re: Timeless Classics of Software Engineering
Date: Mon, 02 Aug 2004 02:58:04 GMT
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"Nick Landsberg" <SPAMhukolauTRAP_at_SPAMworldnetTRAP.att.net> wrote in message news:4wZOc.363590$Gx4.77588_at_bgtnsc04-news.ops.worldnet.att.net...
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> The corollary to your observation would be that since
> management only ever reads executive summaries, they
> presume all tasks are relatively trivial and can be
> outsourced.
It's just human nature. What you can't see, you're not aware of; what you're not aware of, you can't manage.
I was a programmer for 20 years. I noticed that often, for myself and co-workers, an estimate for a job would be produced, and management would question it. Why does it take so long? It doesn't seem like it should take so long.
After a fairly short time, I noticed that I would ask people for estimates, and they would turn them in, and I would look at them and say, why does it take so long? It doesn't seem like it should take so long. And it was absolutely how I felt, and you certainly can't say it's because I didn't know enough about programming, because I'd been doing it for 20 years.
Marshall Received on Mon Aug 02 2004 - 04:58:04 CEST