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[AM] the real cause
s***@aol.com
2004-02-01 02:48:31 UTC
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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

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Mark Graybill
2004-02-01 20:44:36 UTC
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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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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. :-)
Post by s***@aol.com
-steve
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