[Python-Dev] barry_as_FLUFL (original) (raw)

LD 'Gus' Landis ldlandis at gmail.com
Thu Aug 5 18:25:17 CEST 2010

Hi,

I just read an interesting article (interview with Fred Brooks). See: http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1600886

Eoin: The book contains a lot of explicit and implicit advice for those who must manage design projects. What would your top three pieces of advice for such managers be?

Fred:

  1. Choose a chief designer separate from the manager and give him authority over the design and your trust.
  2. Plan for the iterative discovery and screening of requirements.
  3. Prototype (or simulate with models, etc.) early and get real user feedback on real use scenarios early and often.

I immediately thought of the Python "process" as a real life example of this working! Fortunately too, the "crop" of "manager"s is also growing!

Congratulations to all that have been part of this process!!

Cheers, --ldl

On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 4:22 AM, Greg Ewing <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:

Barry Warsaw wrote:

Wait.  It's a joke?! Probably, but it's also useful behaviour -- I hope it stays! (Not that I would ever presume to use it in any code inflicted on anyone else, but it's nice to know I have a choice in the privacy of my own computer.) Heil-the-FLUFl-ly, Greg

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