What ever happened to Tandem and NonStop OS 1999
I have, and as good a book as it is, it isn't perfect. I like the one about, "if a woman can produce a baby in nine months, then nine women can make a baby in a month", as a management credo. Brooks is a smart guy, though a tad cynical at times.
Think about this, was MMM written to sell books or to be The Bible WRT software engineering? Trust me Brooks sold a lot of books and the world is full of good software engineering texts.
Not useful as an operational system, maybe, but still useful as learning tool, if you did something right.
Yes, and no. Fault is meaningless in this context as is inevitablity. There are reasons and results, and, stories and success. Strive for the latter in both cases.
Eric Chomko) writes: Nothing is - that's our point. Still, it has a lot of good things to say. That's one of my favourites, too - although...
The point that is missing here is that 100% is possible 100% of the time. Does that mean people will perform at that level? No! But is it possible? Yes! And for you to claim otherwise means that you're "feeding" the failure part rather than the success part.
This whole Murphy's Law approach to engineering is cute but wholly misguided, IMO. Do you want reality to dicate your plans, or do you want your plans to dictate reality?
Eric
What ever happened to Tandem and NonStop OS 2000
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