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From: vfm6066@dsacg3.UUCP (John A. Ebersold)
Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
Subject: Re: design dictators
Message-ID: <1497@dsacg3.UUCP>
Date: 19 May 89 13:00:34 GMT
References: <1492@dsacg3.UUCP> <1965@yunexus.UUCP>
Reply-To: vfm6066@dsacg3.dla.mil.UUCP (John A. Ebersold)
Organization: Defense Logistics Agency Systems Automation Center, Columbus
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In article <1965@yunexus.UUCP> davecb@yunexus.UUCP (David Collier-Brown) writes:
>In article <1492@dsacg3.UUCP> vfm6066@dsacg3.dla.mil.UUCP (John A. Ebersold) writes:
... I have reached the conclusion that every
>| project needs a design (and perhaps requirements) dictator.
>  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.
>

The description of Dick McMurray

sounds exactly like the

type of person

I am talking about.

Sorry about the format of this I had to fool the line counter.

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John A. Ebersold  at  Defense Logistics Agency   osu-cis!dsacg1!dsacg3!vfm6066  
Unify Corporation     System Automation Center   Columbus, Ohio 1-614-238-5923
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Systems with poorly understood requirements cannot be developed in a crunch.