Re:Software development requires servant leaders
by jaredklewis on Wednesday August 15, 2018 @10:07AM
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I had a similar reaction.
> It’s not because we’re narcissists who need special labels. It’s because people keep running into difficulty trying to square the very definition of a project (something with “defined scope, schedule and resources”) with our real world experiences.
Unless someone has an example of a project that can be easily scheduled and scoped, I am going to go with us being narcissists.
Whether it is writing a screenplay, interior designing the living room, designing an aircraft, or building bridge, scope and schedule are always tricky. No software required.
When something has a fixed scope and can be dependably completed in a fixed amount of time, the appropriate English word is “task.”
> It’s not because we’re narcissists who need special labels. It’s because people keep running into difficulty trying to square the very definition of a project (something with “defined scope, schedule and resources”) with our real world experiences.
Unless someone has an example of a project that can be easily scheduled and scoped, I am going to go with us being narcissists.
Whether it is writing a screenplay, interior designing the living room, designing an aircraft, or building bridge, scope and schedule are always tricky. No software required.
When something has a fixed scope and can be dependably completed in a fixed amount of time, the appropriate English word is “task.”