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From: raveling@vaxa.isi.edu (Paul Raveling)
Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
Subject: Re: American Programmer
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Date: 24 Mar 88 01:11:30 GMT
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In article <3415@bunker.UUCP> shap@clunker.UUCP (Joseph D. Shapiro) writes:
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>I think that one of the many ways that programmers must improve is in
>standing up and saying NO to unreasonable expectations on the part of
>management.
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>If management says "I need this in X weeks", but you know it can only
>be done in 3*X weeks,  ...

	A variant of this is the occasional management decision
	to simply throw more people at a problem.  In software,
	as in real life, there are projects that can't be accelerated
	this way.  Nine women can't necessarily do in one month
	what one woman can do in nine.


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Paul Raveling
Raveling@vaxa.isi.edu