On 1/28/12 8:58 PM, David T. Lewis wrote:
On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 06:37:52PM -0500, James Robertson wrote:
IMNSHO, if you have a team of 200 doing<any> software development in any language, then you have a big IT shop. That also means you have a pretty onerous process in place that will bring all forward motion to a halt. I'd go so far as to say that if you think you need 200 people for your project, go outside and light $100 bills on fire instead. It will burn less money, and annoy fewer people.
Indeed.
It would be interesting to know if anyone can cite a real world example of someone who thought that a software project could be accomplished by a team of 200 people, and it actually turned out to be true.
Dave
How many people in the Windows team?
Well, OK, a reliable project...
L.