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What's the definition of a good project in your mind? I believe you, and the person you are replying to, are coming at this from two different frames of mind.
by leksak 7y ago
What's the definition of a good project in your mind? I believe you, and the person you are replying to, are coming at this from two different frames of mind.
Is the quality of the final product all that matters? Is how the people working on the project felt during it a factor?
I'm, for instance, quite happy with the keyboard I am using at the moment. I doubt, very much, that it is the result of the work of a lone individual or a pair. Is your point that the original design might have been drawn by a lone individual, and you view the rest of the work performed by other people as mere augments to that person's vision?
Or does your interjection only apply to software?
- rurban 7y agoI also did a lot of other projects. Like building engines or houses or planning cities or doing a movie. Only in software you have the luxury to do it alone or in a pair. In architecture it sometimes works, in movies rarely (but such things do exist, like Shane Carruth), in engineering very rarely. In architecture or movies we call that phenomenon, many cooks don't make good meals. Or planning by committee. Never give up your project to a committee. Eg. Guido or Larry made a huge mistake. Compared to those other fields and comparing the results you see excellency mostly with projects made by the fewest amount of people. In SW its trivial to see. All projects managed by a big team are barely successful and more look like managed towards destruction. All managed still by a good founder do look great. Genetic arguments rarely count here.