Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Alex Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth Subject: Re: Really? Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2017 08:49:06 +0000 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 30 Message-ID: References: <1239a88b-a574-401b-9454-50ac7e000049@googlegroups.com> <20170206233939.70a7ecff@_> <17e4a172-bc40-47e7-b7e1-f2e60f6802de@googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2017 08:47:17 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="7cbf50e1e5552b951eeb4ec9c42a668e"; logging-data="20842"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX198fTzGheXk2hEdz7oq+AbcTrdmbdfsyC4=" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.7.1 In-Reply-To: Cancel-Lock: sha1:Q8l08fQGFALuOOXBAbUtpVGhvjs= Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.forth:54834 On 2/13/2017 05:24, Elizabeth D. Rather wrote: > On 2/12/17 6:26 AM, Alex wrote: >> On 2/12/2017 04:01, hughaguilar96@gmail.com wrote: >>> I agree that a large team is problematic. As I said before, the only >>> way that I know of (have personal experience with) in making this >>> successful, is to divide the big project into several small related >>> projects and give each programmer full authority over one project --- >>> this way each programmer works alone --- it is always a good thing >>> for a programmer to work alone, and it is never really going to work >>> for multiple programmers to share responsibility for a single >>> project. >> >> This flies in tha face of the available evidence; agile, DSDM, RAD, >> CMMI, DevOps, you name it, none of these approaches advocates islands of >> isolated development. They do, however, require a cooperative approach >> to develpment that you might find impossible. >> > That approach is part of the trouble with the VALDOCs project we were > just discussing. Wait, they had Hugh on the team? > > Cheers, > Elizabeth > -- Alex