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From: erwin@trwacs.UUCP (Harry Erwin)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: chief programmer team organizations was (c++ vs ada results)
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Date: 25 Jun 91 13:42:31 GMT
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g_harrison@vger.nsu.edu (George C. Harrison, Norfolk State University) writes:

>Do chief programmer teams really work anywhere outside of a university
>classroom or in an experimental industrial setting? 

We used a chief programmer team on some tasks on the Site Defense
Program in the mid-1970s at TRW. (This was the same program that
was the basis for many of Barry Boehm's results during the same
period. It seemed to work. 
-- 
Harry Erwin
Internet: erwin@trwacs.fp.trw.com