Path: utzoo!yunexus!davecb
From: davecb@yunexus.UUCP (David Collier-Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
Subject: Re: design dictators
Message-ID: <1965@yunexus.UUCP>
Date: 18 May 89 02:47:59 GMT
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Reply-To: davecb@yunexus.UUCP (David Collier-Brown)
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In article <1492@dsacg3.UUCP> vfm6066@dsacg3.dla.mil.UUCP (John A. Ebersold) writes:
| After reading that article last year and thinking about software that seems
| to have been done right, leading projects small and large (some of which
| have turned out better than others) I have reached the conclusion that every
| project needs a design (and perhaps requirements) dictator.  This person
| should be the best designer in the organization and is not necessarily the
| project leader but it would help if she/he were.

  Yes.
  I had the definite pleasure of working for Dick McMurray of Waterloo
some years ago, and found him to be a good example of a dictator in
the sense I hope you meant.
  We had some loooooong discussions (read arguments), but one person was
ultimately responsible, and that was Dickums.  So we never actually bogged
down.

  Mind you, I'm still doubtfull about that last if in read_file()...

--dave c-b