CS8113g: Introduction

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Team Organization
Surgeons and Architects 4/8/98
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Agenda

• Questions
• ended quickly on Monday
• Mythical Man-Month history
• Chapter summaries
• 3302 roles

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Mythical Man-Month

• Author Fred Brooks
• 1975 1st edition
• IBM experience in 50-60s
• 1985 Silver bullet essay
• 1995 20th anniversary
• check out Ch. 18

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Ch. 1 The Tar Pit

• Why software is complex

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Ch. 2 The Mythical Man-Month

• Lack of time is 1 problem
• People and time are not interchangeable
• Why?

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Communication problems

• scaling problems
• bringing new people up to speed

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Ch. 3 The Surgical Team

• Fact 1 small is beautiful
• Fact 2 programming talent varies
• So, what do you do?

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Mills Surgeon team

• issues of scale

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3302 roles

• What are they? How do they relate?
• Confusing roles and work