Re: The Mythical Man-Month

Subject: Re: The Mythical Man-Month
From: "Sandy Harris" <sandyinchina -at- gmail -dot- com>
To: TECHWR-L <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2007 09:00:29 +0800

On 6/20/07, Richard Lewis <tech44writer -at- yahoo -dot- com> wrote:

> >From what I gathered by looking at Wikipedia's blurb on the Mythical Man-Month,

Read the book itself. It is good enough to be worth re-reading every
few years too.

> ... Sorrry to say it, but 98% of all business analysts can only maintain focus
> on essential (i.e., implementation independent) requirements for about 30
> seconds. Afterward, he/she HAS to digress into, time-wasting implementation
> details, ...

There's a chapter on architecture vs. implementation.

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References:
Re: The Mythical Man-Month: From: neilson
Re: The Mythical Man-Month: From: Richard Lewis

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