Re: chief programmer team organizations was (c++ vs ada results)

[orville@weyrich.UUCP (Orville R. Weyrich)]

In article <1991Jun26.005625.25608@netcom.COM> jls@netcom.COM (Jim Showalter) writes:
>>The concept of an "elite" design team dictating system architectures
>>to a "serf" class of coders is offensive to all but the most uncreative of
>>Ada programmers.
>
>I may be misunderstanding your post, but from what I'm able to glean from
>it, you don't think hierarchical decision making works on a project, and
>that the alternative is a sort of enlightened egalitarianism. If so, I
>disagree, based on my own experience. One does not expect bricklayers,
>welders, pipefitters, etc to also design a skyscraper, 

Agreed.

>any more than one
But if I were a brick-layer, I would expect that there would be a suggestion
box around somewhere for my input -- sometimes field observations are useful
in catching oversights committed by the 'big boys'. Even better, the 'big
boys' would practice "management by walking around."

>expects an architect to wire the offices. This always seems to get cast

Agreed. Also, it would not be cost effective.

But I would be worried if the architect had no idea how to wire an office.



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