Re: [AM] the real cause

Larry Putnam did extensive research on this very thing.
The "Mythical Manmonth" has a great deal of insight was well.

Also, Alistair Cockburn has data on the topic.
http://alistair.cockburn.us/

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Subject: [AM] the real cause


> >> Perhaps your teams are large because you assume they need to be large?
> >> There's the classic example of the State of Minnesota and the State of
> >> Florida working on virtually identical projects, Minnesota assumed they
> >> could do it with a small team (5 people?) and succeeded within a year,
> >> Florida assumed they needed a big team (100+ ??) and still didn't
deliver
> >> after several years.  The Standish Group has written this up somewhere
if
> >> I'm not mistaken.
>
> having relocated to the Sunshine state for the past 3 years (including the
last elections in which I have no idea for whom I voted or even if my vote
was counted) I don't know if comparing Florida's management of anything with
anyone else's management of anything proves anything.  :-)
> -steve
>
> For more information about AM, visit the Agile Modeling Home Page at
www.agilemodeling.com
>
>

For more information about AM, visit the Agile Modeling Home Page at www.agilemodeling.com
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