From: "Graham C. Hughes" <graham.hughes@resnet.ucsb.edu>
Subject: Re: Do I Really Need A Supervisor?
Date: 1997/03/17
Date: 1997-03-17T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87iv2qt1lb.fsf@A-abe.resnet.ucsb.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 5g7u24$1jeg@uni.library.ucla.edu
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>>>>> "Robert" == Robert Dewar <dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu> writes:
Robert> I know many programmers feel this way, but I certainly would
Robert> not hire them. Pretty strong central management is essential
Robert> to software quality in my view.
Strong perhaps. Numerous probably not. Otherwise decisions much go
through too many levels and too many ``adjustments''. Certainly when
your administrative staff outnumbers your programmers, you have a very
big problem. More generally, when the overseers outnumber the
workers, large problems occur. Unfortunately, this situation is far
more common than people give credit for.
I believe Parkinson had it right, in _Parkinson's_Law_and_Other_Studies_
_in_Administration_. Administration grows without bound, and without
regard to the amount of work being done.
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Thread overview: 59+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1997-03-12 0:00 Do I Really Need A Supervisor? Auntie Alias
1997-03-13 0:00 ` Jay Martin
1997-03-13 0:00 ` Randall Edick
1997-03-14 0:00 ` David Taylor
1997-03-15 0:00 ` Richard Kenner
1997-03-17 0:00 ` Randall Edick
1997-03-17 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-03-18 0:00 ` Randall Edick
1997-03-18 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-03-19 0:00 ` Michael F Brenner
1997-03-19 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-03-21 0:00 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1997-03-22 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-03-24 0:00 ` the one and only real true kibo
1997-03-21 0:00 ` John G. Volan
1997-03-22 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-03-21 0:00 ` John G. Volan
1997-03-21 0:00 ` John G. Volan
1997-03-21 0:00 ` John G. Volan
1997-03-14 0:00 ` John Apa
1997-03-17 0:00 ` Graham C. Hughes [this message]
1997-03-19 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
[not found] ` <01bc3276$57fc1800$0902a8c0@alice>
1997-03-18 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-03-18 0:00 ` Jay Martin
1997-03-18 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-03-20 0:00 ` Corey Minyard
1997-03-24 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1997-03-25 0:00 ` L. Darrell Ray
1997-03-27 0:00 ` duncan
1997-04-10 0:00 ` BAT0000000
1997-03-27 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-03-27 0:00 ` Michael Malak
1997-03-27 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1997-03-28 0:00 ` Laurent Guerby
1997-03-13 0:00 ` Jay Martin
1997-03-13 0:00 ` David Wheeler
1997-03-13 0:00 ` Michael F Brenner
1997-03-13 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1997-03-13 0:00 ` David Brown
1997-03-13 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-03-14 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1997-03-15 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-03-17 0:00 ` Norman H. Cohen
1997-03-17 0:00 ` antialias
1997-03-18 0:00 ` nasser
1997-03-20 0:00 ` John Apa
1997-03-19 0:00 ` John Apa
1997-03-19 0:00 ` antialias
[not found] ` <33301E64.110E@delphi.dasd.honeywe <3330BE71.695@earthlink.net>
1997-03-20 0:00 ` jim hopper
1997-03-20 0:00 ` Michael F Brenner
1997-03-13 0:00 ` Samuel Tardieu
1997-03-13 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-03-13 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1997-03-14 0:00 ` Laurent Guerby
1997-03-14 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-03-13 0:00 ` Mats Weber
1997-03-14 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1997-03-14 0:00 ` Adam Beneschan
1997-03-21 0:00 ` antialias
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