{"id":362,"date":"2007-01-03T12:58:25","date_gmt":"2007-01-03T20:58:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/netmesh.info\/jernst\/uncategorized\/of-books-and-myths"},"modified":"2007-01-03T12:58:25","modified_gmt":"2007-01-03T20:58:25","slug":"of-books-and-myths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/2007\/01\/of-books-and-myths\/","title":{"rendered":"Of Books and Myths"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/confusedofcalcutta.com\/2006\/12\/24\/of-books-and-myths\/\" target=\"_blank\">This story<\/a> is <a href=\"http:\/\/searchcrm.techtarget.com\/sDefinition\/0,,sid11_gci211776,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">ROTFL<\/a> kind of funny. I&#8217;m having a hard time trying to stop laughing.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8230; During the run-up to their launch, the schedule slipped significantly, and the CEO (overall a great guy) made the classic engineering management mistake of adding many more developers to the late project in hopes of speeding its completion.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>After failing to win several arguments on this point, the engineers &#8230; each bought a copy of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Mythical_Man-Month\" target=\"_blank\">[The Mythical Man-Month]<\/a>, brought the CEO into a conference room, and stacked up the copies of the book, telling him, It is extremely urgent that you read this book. We&#8217;ve bought you many copies so that you might read it faster. They made their point.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Via Joaquin Miller from <a href=\"http:\/\/confusedofcalcutta.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">JP Rangaswami<\/a> quoting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kerrybuckley.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Kerry Buckley<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This story is ROTFL kind of funny. I&#8217;m having a hard time trying to stop laughing. &#8230; During the run-up to their launch, the schedule slipped significantly, and the CEO (overall a great guy) made the classic engineering management mistake of adding many more developers to the late project in hopes of speeding its completion.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"webmentions_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comments","kind-"],"kind":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}