Things that only someone who has been programming 20 years would know

Re:Things that only someone who has been programming 20 year... by daly on Wednesday July 28, 2021 @06:58PM (#27990834)

You can't estimate software. (I've been writing software for 50 years).

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Re:Things that only someone who has been programming 20 year... by musicale on Wednesday July 28, 2021 @09:31PM (#27991814)

I recently rediscovered Tom DeMarco's article "Software Engineering: An Idea Whose Time Has Come and Gone?" where he makes an interesting argument that tight control is much more important for a $1M project that yields $1.1M in value vs. a $1M project that yields $50M in value:

"...the more you focus on control, the more likely you're working on a project that's striving to deliver something of relatively minor value."

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