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Is there an inside joke here? Because I'm quite certain that Parkinson's bike shed allegory was commonly used among software development teams well before 1999
by portman 16y ago
Is there an inside joke here?
Because I'm quite certain that Parkinson's bike shed allegory was commonly used among software development teams well before 1999.
- CapitalistCartr 16y agoAs the article (email) says, it's from a book printed in the 1960s.
- portman 16y agoYes, it's an allegory related by Cyril Parkinson, originally in his lectures, and then eventually in his eponymous book. I'm familiar with it. My question is: why is the subject of this thread "The Original Bike Shed Email", when there were undoubtedly lots of Bike Shed emails prior to October 1999?
- gthank 16y agoMaybe there were, but I haven't found them. Maybe the title should be "The Earliest Bike Shed Email I've Seen". Also, it gives a pretty thorough explanation of the history behind it, something left out by most references I've seen.
- eitally 16y agoBecause this was the "Original Bike Shed Email" that gave rise to, oh, http://www.sheddingbikes.com http://www.sheddingbikes.com. I think this was posted more in response to Zed's popularity now than because of Parkinson's idea as demonstrated on the FreeBSD discussion.
- gthank 16y agoActually, I posted it because somebody linked it earlier today in a comment and it was the best (and earliest) explanation of the Bike Shed phenomena (in a software context) I'd seen.