http://jrothman.com/blog/mpd/2007/05/two-good-rules.html Management, especially good management, is hard to do. This blog is for people who want to think about how they manage people, projects, and risk. Fri, 29 Aug 2008 18:11:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 http://jrothman.com/blog/mpd/2007/05/two-good-rules.html#comment-622 J. B. Rainsberger Sat, 30 Jun 2007 09:08:50 +0000 http://jrothman.com/blog/mpd/?p=7970#comment-622 Graeme, I'm with you, but sadly, plenty of projects don't follow this advice. It amazes me every time I see it, every time one of my consultant friends tells me about seeing it, but it happens. Incomprehensible, I know. Graeme, I’m with you, but sadly, plenty of projects don’t follow this advice. It amazes me every time I see it, every time one of my consultant friends tells me about seeing it, but it happens. Incomprehensible, I know.

]]> http://jrothman.com/blog/mpd/2007/05/two-good-rules.html#comment-621 Graeme Mathieson Wed, 30 May 2007 13:22:24 +0000 http://jrothman.com/blog/mpd/?p=7970#comment-621 Maybe I'm just young and naive (I've only been a professional software developer for about 8 years), but I've had the good fortune never to work on a project where these two rules *aren't* followed. I just assume things always happen that way now. Are there really still projects started in 2007 that *don't* follow these rules? Actually, now I think of it, I was brought into one project where I asked, "So where do I check the code out from?", and it was explained to me that they just emailed the source code to each other. So that was the first thing I implemented before I even tried to look at the code. Maybe I’m just young and naive (I’ve only been a professional software developer for about 8 years), but I’ve had the good fortune never to work on a project where these two rules *aren’t* followed. I just assume things always happen that way now.
Are there really still projects started in 2007 that *don’t* follow these rules?
Actually, now I think of it, I was brought into one project where I asked, “So where do I check the code out from?”, and it was explained to me that they just emailed the source code to each other. So that was the first thing I implemented before I even tried to look at the code.

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