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Made me think of the Herman Hauser quote: “When we decided to do a microprocessor, in hindsight, I think I made two great decisions, I trusted the team, and ga
by klelatti 5y ago
Made me think of the Herman Hauser quote:
“When we decided to do a microprocessor, in hindsight, I think I made two great decisions, I trusted the team, and gave them two things that Intel and Motorola had never given their people: the first was no money and the second was no people..”
- Lio 5y agoThat’s a deceptively deep comment from Mr Hauser. It might come across as glib at first but it’s not. I’ve seen many projects fail through hitting the Mythical Man Month. It’s can good intention from management to throw people at a project but those lines of communication can cripple it right from the start.
- klelatti 5y agoCompletely agree. Also clear that HH kept out of their way which is a lesson for many managers. I'd also add that they had two more things - no legacy and no customers - so no-one to demand backwards compatibility which hindered the other firms. I actually attended one of the first public outings for the first Arm CPU - in 1986 I think - we couldn't quite believe that this tiny team had built a 32 bit CPU from scratch. Of course history kind of repeated itself later when Arm Ltd was spun out and had almost no cash and almost no people (or 12 to be precise)!