Author: Andy Duplain
Date: 14:54:11 01/09/99
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On January 06, 1999 at 18:52:32, Don Dailey wrote: >Fernando, > >I hear what you are saying, but I tend to feel that more people often >just get in the way. Most projects, even great big ones tend to be >the result of a single vision, often by a single person who is able >to inspire the team. When a project requires huge amounts of manpower, >then numbers really count, such as building a new O/S. If I was a >millionaire and could hire any number of people to write the strongest >possible chess program, I think what I would probably do is hire >many people and let them work independantly and under their OWN ideas >and inspiration. Then I would take the strongest one. It's a case >of 2 heads are not really better than one! There are many programs out there, less complicated than chess programs, that require "large amounts of manpower", and they are being developed and maintained by large teams. Why would Microsoft's approach to software engineering change for a chess program ? They would do analysis and then design, divvy up the work and then start development; bits of this would iterate. I wonder how many of the great chess programs we have today were developed in this manner ? Maybe it works, but nobody's tried it ? Andy.
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