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Second, our estimating techniques fallaciously confuse effort with progress, hiding the assumption that men and months are interchangeable.
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Sometimes the problem is to discover what the problem is.
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The programmer at wit's end for lack of space can often do best by disentangling himself from his code, rearing back, and contemplating his data. Representation is the essence of programming.
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not only the whats of the design, but also the whys by which it was reached.
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Almost invariably I have made wrong assumptions about how they would use the new tool.
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Over-specified implementations cost way more than they should, with little added function or performance.
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Cosgrove has perceptively pointed out that the programmer delivers satisfaction of a user need rather than any tangible product. And both the actual need and the user's perception of that need will change as programs are built, tested, and used.[3]
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A ship on the beach is a lighthouse to the sea. (DUTCH PROVERB)
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Organizations must be designed around the people available; not people fitted into pure-theory organizations.
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The opportunity to be creative and inventive in implementation is not significantly diminished by working within a given external specification, and the order of creativity may even be enhanced by that discipline.
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And so from a statistical mechanical model, Belady and Lehman arrive for programming-systems at a more general conclusion supported by the experience of all the earth. "Things are always at their best in the beginning," said Pascal. C. S." --
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And so from a statistical mechanical model, Belady and Lehman arrive for programming-systems at a more general conclusion supported by the experience of all the earth. "Things are always at their best in the beginning," said Pascal."
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