Posted by rf on 07/23/07 09:46

"Toby A Inkster" <usenet200707@tobyinkster.co.uk> wrote in message
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> Sherm Pendley wrote:
>
>> Ever read Brooks' "The Mythical Man-Month"? :-)
>
> Yes, yes -- but a very long time ago.

That would be, er, a month ago?


Trivia: A project team I once worked beside would consider the odd man month
to be as trivial as an extended Friday Lunch down at the pub. The budget was
two hundred man *years*. Went over budget by thirty or fourty years IIRC :-)

Other trivia: The consultant "project leader" was an IBM import, at a cost
of $AU1M+ per year, and that was back in the 70's when beers were worth a
couple or few to the $.

--
Richard.

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