Now Reading

Its been a good week. Completed reading "Cathedral and the Bazaar" an essay by Eric Rayomond on software development more specifically on the methods. The "Cathedral" style followed by most software development organisations and the "Bazaar" style followed by a cohesive set of volunteers like the Linux Kernel Project, Mozilla, GNU Cash etc. He goes on to disprove a lot of conventions that we have as project managers on motivation, resource marshalling, schedule, budget and time, and proves very convincingly the superiority of "Bazaar" style development. Which in hindsight is true considering that most of us have a contempt for documentation and quality processes. But we still believe that the "Cathedral" style will provide that magic cure to all our software development ills. Such Shortsightedness. Well now on to another masterpiece