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Written by Elisabeth Hendrickson on 2025-01-28 at 23:11

Reading the NATO report on software engineering that came out of the 1968 conference where the term "software crisis" was coined. (It's at https://www.scrummanager.com/files/nato1968e.pdf if you want to read it too.)

Currently on page 11. ELEVEN. (Out of 200+.) It says right here: "The need for feedback was stressed many times."

We knew. Have always known. Feedback is the key to everything. Any process that intentionally delays feedback is going to run into problems. We took such a wrong turn in the 1990s. Ugh.

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Written by Elisabeth Hendrickson on 2025-01-28 at 23:55

Now reading Randell's 1979 comments on the 1968 report (https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.5555/800091.802915). He quotes J.W. Smith:

"I'm still bemused by the way they attempt to build software... They begin with planning specification, go through functional specifications, implementation specifications, etc., etc. If you look down the PERT-chart you discover that all the nodes on it up until the last one produce nothing but paper. It is unfortunately true that people confuse the menu with the meal."

(edited for brevity)

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Written by Elisabeth Hendrickson on 2025-01-28 at 23:55

"Don't confuse the menu with the meal" is my new favorite phrase.

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Toot

Written by Bill Seitz on 2025-01-29 at 13:04

@testobsessed that's a variation of "the map is not the territory"

http://webseitz.fluxent.com/wiki/MapIsNotTheTerritory

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