Process Standards
by George Dinwiddie, 11 July 2011 | The Agile Blogosphere
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There’s been a long discussion on one of the mailing lists about software development process standards. Someone quoted Robert Glass from his essay “A New Way of Looking at Software Productivity” in Software Conflict 2.0: The Art and Science of Software EngineeringData show that good people do various software tasks 7 to 28 times better than others… Could we, for example, find out what the good people do? And once we found out, could we transfer that technology to others?
Now, I haven’t read this paper, so it’s quite possible that it’s taken out of context. But it was introduced to me with the question
This sounds like the goal we are trying to do, to discover the most effective way to do something and then enable others to work the same way. Does anybody disagree with this as the goal?
That sounds so logical, doesn’t it. We find that person who’s most productive, and have everyone else work the same way. All we have to do is write down what they do and make it the standard. Oh, dear. I’m afraid that’s not the way people work. Fortunately, it also doesn’t be quite what this person intended, either. But this point of view, or some parts of it, pop up...read more
