Comments on: The Process Variant of Conway's Law http://drunkandretired.com/2006/01/19/the-process-variant-of-conways-law/ Est. 2000 Thu, 09 Feb 2012 17:59:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: People Over Process » Blog Archive » Gaming Your Context, or, Methodology by Constraints http://drunkandretired.com/2006/01/19/the-process-variant-of-conways-law/#comment-2266 Mon, 19 Feb 2007 18:19:42 +0000 http://www.drunkandretired.com/?p=2583#comment-2266 [...] Ultimately, I’d posit that most software companies are not willing to pay programmers enough money or share in enough profit to sustain the sort of passionate coders you’d “want” and that people like Paul Graham chronicle, fund, and profit from. Good for him and the coders! The Grahamian programmer, as much as I really like the model, is not really the majority programmer, yet most (vocal) code-monkeys, and certainly, the rest of the world, like to think/wish it is. [...]

]]> By: Nathan http://drunkandretired.com/2006/01/19/the-process-variant-of-conways-law/#comment-2267 Sun, 04 Feb 2007 01:08:16 +0000 http://www.drunkandretired.com/?p=2583#comment-2267 Many business writers try to incorporate heaps of incidental details into their requirements documents because they are too scared of getting into trouble with stakeholders for missing things or are poorly trained.

When they do this they end up in a vicious cycle and one you give an inch to the business, they take a mile. IT needs to take a more-pro active stance and control their own documents and contents of the documents.

Here is a good post.

http://thebusinessanalyst.blogspot.com/2007/01/what-vs-how.html

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]]> By: Scott Sehlhorst http://drunkandretired.com/2006/01/19/the-process-variant-of-conways-law/#comment-2262 Sat, 21 Jan 2006 04:52:59 +0000 http://www.drunkandretired.com/?p=2583#comment-2262 Thanks for starting this conversation with Cauvin.

We are trying to extend it in our post titled Requirements document proliferation. We generally agree, occasionally disagree, and offer a suggestion on what to do about it.

We’d love it if you could join in over there too.

]]> By: Tyner Blain » Document proliferation http://drunkandretired.com/2006/01/19/the-process-variant-of-conways-law/#comment-2261 Sat, 21 Jan 2006 04:43:44 +0000 http://www.drunkandretired.com/?p=2583#comment-2261 [...] Roger Cauvin and Cote’ have started a great conversation about the proliferation of requirements documents. To follow the thread, start with Roger’s post, make sure you read the comments there as well. Then check out the post by Cote’. [...]

]]> By: Cote' http://drunkandretired.com/2006/01/19/the-process-variant-of-conways-law/#comment-2260 Thu, 19 Jan 2006 23:40:57 +0000 http://www.drunkandretired.com/?p=2583#comment-2260 Indeed, I included that idea in a comment on Cauvin’s original blog entry that sparked off me writing the post.

]]> By: Random Blogger http://drunkandretired.com/2006/01/19/the-process-variant-of-conways-law/#comment-2259 Thu, 19 Jan 2006 23:18:44 +0000 http://www.drunkandretired.com/?p=2583#comment-2259 Documents are really a form of CYA. That is the real issue. Most of the time people hide behind the documents to protect themselves. Everyone wants to have a doc that they can point to and say. See, it says it here and I did it so you can’t blame me.

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