Internetworkers: http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/

[jdwilbur at yahoo.com (Jesse D.d.m. Wilbur)]

Having only really worked on non-death march projects, all I can offer is some
academic experience. Seems like Frederick Brooks wrote an entire book on the
subject of what happens on a large software project. And while the Mythical 
Man
Month has a place within every business person's business-conscience, it's
possible that not many people have actually read it. All the problems 
discussed
in the original problem definition (i.e., There's never enough time, the
salespeople oversold, the management never has a clear grip, the architecture
is broken, the Alpha-Geek-Emperor has no clothes, etc.) are addressed in the
book to some extent. While it was originally written twenty or more years ago,
and doesn't specifically cover OOP (which I am assuming is usually the basis
for million line programming projects), the latest version does some mention 
of
it. 

It may not make things that much easier, but at least it isn't throwing "Who
Moved My Cheese" at the code monkeys to justify changing expectations.

And I mean code monkeys in the very best sense.

Jesse

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>From bethellison at netscape.net  Tue Feb 18 09:26:11 2003
From: bethellison at netscape.net (Beth)
Date: Tue Feb 18 09:25:06 2003
Subject: [internetworkers]Jame Gumb's Journal
Message-ID: <43A3B351.49B7FC9E.481B1415 AT netscape.net>

Lotion and the Basket: The Online Journal of Jame "Buffalo Bill" Gumb. Lovely 
fun.

http://www.pamie.com/butterfly/index.html

From the most recent entry:
"I really should do some catching up. I'll put it on my list of things to do. 
I'm really behind on poking Catherine with a stick. Oh, funny story. Her 
birthday was the other week, and I totally made her think I'd forgotten it. 
She was crying... "I mean it! Let me out, you freak!" which is totally how we 
talk to each other. Anyhoo..."

Check out the "Ask Catherine" entry. Yes, Jame and I have been discussing 
whether or not I should return to the Web.

Beth

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>From pjones at metalab.unc.edu  Tue Feb 18 09:40:21 2003
From: pjones at metalab.unc.edu (Paul Jones)
Date: Tue Feb 18 09:39:12 2003
Subject: [internetworkers] WED 2/19: Creative Commons' Glenn Otis Brown
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0302180939220.3236-100000 AT tribal.metalab.unc.edu>

Please come and please forward as appropriate -- 1@|\/|0r!53|) version at 
the end of this message.

WHO: Glenn Otis Brown, Executive Director of Creative Commons
WHEN: Wednesday, February 19. 3:30 pm
WHERE: Pleasants Family Room, Wilson Library, UNC Chapel Hill
MAPS, etc: http://ibiblio.org/

About Glenn:
Glenn Otis Brown is Executive Director of Creative Commons, a non-profit 
organization founded on the notion that some people would prefer to share 
their creative works (and the power to copy, modify, and distribute their 
works) instead of exercising all of the restrictions of copyright law. 

Glenn graduated from the University of Texas at Austin in 1996 and from 
Harvard Law School in 2000. At Harvard, Glenn worked at the Berkman Center 
for Internet and Society, and was a member of the Harvard Law Review. 
After graduation, Glenn worked in The Economist's Washington D.C. bureau 
before clerking for the Honorable Stanley Marcus on the Court of Appeals 
for the 11th Circuit, in Miami. Glenn is also assistant producer of 
Digital Age, a New York public TV show.

About Creative Commons:
http://www.creativecommons.org/

who: g|Enn oT1z brown, 3xecUtIve diR3Ctor 0f cr3ativ3 comM0Nz
Wh3n: w3dn3sday, f3bruarY 19. 3:30 pm
wheR3: P|3asaNtz fam1ly rooM, w1LSon LibrAry, unc chaP3l Hill

ab0uT gL3nn:
g|enn Otiz broWn 1z eX3cutiv3 d1RectOr of cREATiVE commonZ, a non-pRof1t 
0rganization Founded 0N THE noTi0n that som3 P3OPle Wou|d pr3f3r TO Shar3 
th3ir cr3atiV3 WOrkz (& Th3 pOwer to c0pY, M0dify, and d1stR1Bute theIr 
WoRKz) inSteAd oF 3x3rciSing all of th3 r3str1Ct1onz of c0pYright |AW. 

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hARvArd law scho0l in 2000. At HArvard, gleNN WOrk3D at th3 b3rKmaN c3nt3r 
f0r intErN3t and sOc13TY, and wAZ a m3Mb3r 0f tH3 harvArD |Aw r3vi3w. 
aft3r GrAdUati0N, g|3nn WorkeD in the 3conoM1st'Z washiNgtOn d.C. bur3aU 
b3foR3 clerK1ng for th3 honorab|3 STAn|3y marcUz On The court of ApPealz 
FOr th3 11th ciRCu1t, iN M1Ami. GlEnn 1Z ALsO ass1stAnT pr0Duc3r 0f 
dIgItal age, a NEw yoRK pub|iC Tv shoW.

ab0ut creAt1v3 commOnZ:
http://www.creativecommons.org

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