Re: OpEd: Programming is not Team Sports

What do they do? They plan. They plan absolutely everything, and they do it well in advance.

Uhm... I guess you've never been involved in building Big Heavy Things ;) They sometimes (quite often actually) miss targets by years and billions

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Re^2: OpEd: Programming is not Team Sports by locked_user sundialsvc4 (Abbot) on May 25, 2012 at 18:07 UTC
Every human endeavor is marked by Kilroy. But that does not obviate the planning and execution process. How much more drastic would these failures be if the construction company had been making it up by the seat of their pants.
Re^3: OpEd: Programming is not Team Sports by zwon (Abbot) on May 26, 2012 at 05:38 UTC
But that does not obviate the planning and execution process. Isn't agile all about planning and execution? The problem with Waterfall is that their long-term plans are not reliable.	[reply]