Total new peaches - Write the previous week before the "deadline" was published last week, the "deadline" editor gave me a call, telling me that this book will produce this week, let me quite Get pleasing. Since August, the mood has not been good. There is nothing special after meeting with the CBS netizens. It is very much a lot of fire, and it is often quarreled with people online. Recently, Beijing's snow is very beautiful, Adams' "Moon Myth" reads the heart, my book is finally published. Before Christmas, the mood has a little lit. This article has long been prepared to write, until today, finally have a little feeling to write. Since the "deadline" will be published soon, you will start with this book. Overall, "deadline" is an interesting story. Because it is interesting, it can help readers to kill. However, in addition to killing time, can I help the reader's work, I will not dare to conclude. For a novel, there should not have too many expectations to it; but the "no expectation" mentality will read a novel, maybe there is no harvest. Yes, as a reader, you can't (nor) I hope that a novel can help you work. You are very likely to encounter a training lecturer like Kabfos, and it is also likely to meet like Belon's hate boss. If you are lucky, you can meet the boss like "Head". However, when your project faces the challenge of the deadline, you can't hope there will be so many excellent consultants to help you - this kind of thing will only happen in the novel. In short, the whole "deadline" is a pleasant and happy atmosphere. The problem is very troublesome, I can always be solved one by one; the bad people are very arrogant, and finally being driven away; the deadline is really urgent, but like Tom Cruises, "impossible tasks" finally completed . Also, although it is tired of being tired, the male protagonist can still hold the beauty. However, this happy atmosphere often gives readers an unrealistic fantasy, so that they think that the stories in the novel can happen to themselves. If there is a reader after half a year, I guess him must feel desolate because Nanke has woke up. Tom Demarco seems to have a smile, with a silver-white hair, the image is very good, just like the "deadline" can be comfortable. However, as the first generation of software scientists, the attitude of his writing is inevitably let the people who are unknown. "The last deadline" is like not, and there is still the SLACK that is known as "the words" of "qiye", even the most famous "person" is also over optimistic and "feeding fires Humorous. Jacques Lebrun's criticism sees blood:
If you happen to the author's ideas, and go in the corresponding direction, as an attentive waiter, it (refers to the "this book) will open a specific door for you. But it seems that it should not be expected, it can lead you home all the way. [1]
If possible, read the two books "Moon Myth" and "Last Term" within a week, it is definitely a wonderful reading experience. You can see the two distinct attitude of Brooks and Demarco in almost the same knowledge of knowledge: "The moon is mythical, silver bombs," the "Yanshan opens the road, the water frame bridge" optimism. If the reader will take the urgent pressure of the project hopes to find some spiritan medicine in these martial arts cheats, they are stirred with the two inner strengths of this yin yang, afraid that the brain will be distorted. Or, you can see these two books as two philosophical thoughts on "science of software" - if there is a scientific component in software engineering. In 1978, Tom Demarco's name was very scared to a book - the Structured Analysis and system specification - published, and it was very confident that he was very confident in structured methods and software projects. However, when the software is widely turned from the army and the government, the situation is increasingly turning to the direction of "Moon Myth": Software Engineering can solve some problems; some problems seem to always Unable to solve. As a result, Brooks made their own views and successively launched two articles with "no silver bombs" and "no matter how no silver bomb", established their own claim: in a fairly small range, software engineering is effective; A considerable range of other scope, whether the software engineering is effective in unknown; and there is always some problems that cannot be solved by software engineering, that is, "no silver bomb". Brooks' discussion, it is the first time, the first time it is clearly deciated for software engineering science (if software engineering is indeed scientific), and no longer expects software engineering to solve all problems. Therefore, this attitude can be referred to as "scientific pessimism." After the decline is completed, Demarco seems to be more optimistic. In 1995, he launched the book of Why Does Software Cost So Much; 1997, "Last Term"; 1999, "People"; 2002, SLACK. From these books, you can see that his thinking has been completely transferred to the scope of software engineering science. Use his own words to summarize: four major elements of quality management:
l Select the right person.
l Assigns the right job for them.
l Keep them to get incentives.
l Help team condense and maintain cohesion. [2]
Obviously, the problem that Demarco's concern is: In addition to the system, repeatable processes, pay attention to the care of people, and expect such "freedom" management to solve some problems, and discover the scientific principles. . For questions that cannot be solved by software engineering, he returns to software development - relying on personal talents to success. This exploration, even if there is a certain result, it is impossible to form guidance to others, but it is a useful thing for software philosophy. It is not only Tom Demarco. Pete McBreen also returned to the handicraft era of the industrial revolution in his Software Craftsmanship, and changed the metaphor for many years of "Project", and the "Process" was changed to metaphor for software development, and proposed a set of development software craftsmanship. . Recognizing the narrow narrowness of science, recognizing science is not universal, people have begun to make bold and cautious explorations to the fields outside the science, and maintain a calm optimism, no longer put the philosophy of understanding of the understanding of the science. This is an attitude towards the development of science and philosophy. The great development of natural science is starting from the elimination of the "scientific" two-headed radios. Software science can be developed, it must be the fantasy that eliminates "software engineering to solve all problems". So, when you pick up the "last deadline", "person", slack or Software Craftsmanship, it should not be expected to help you. When the theory of Darwin as a form of metaphysical guidance, people can make people have a fear of nature; but if it is treated as a scientific theory, it is endless, and the scourge is endless. For the extension of the form, readers can only expect it to arouse their spiritual resonance and cannot have realistic requirements for it. Or you can change an angle: When you leave a realistic problem, forget the secular pressure, use the happiness to enjoy the eyes to read them, they may give you some unexpected gains. At this point, I think you should also understand some of the "unsurcatic publicity" of the publishing house. No one can tell you "this book is not good" or something else, because it is good to judge it. Moreover, people who cannot distinguish science and non-science are always so much, so some people think that they can learn to win the dragon eighteen palms. As the owner of the pockets, I hope that others will help you, give yourself a bright eye, then give those rational optimists and not so reasonable optimists a tolerant smile. It's going to have a New Year. I haven't dare to say this next year's software project. For those pseudo sciences and nonsense on the scientific coat and those who wear a truth, I will still give it the most severe refuters. At the same time, maybe I will also see those "philosophical philosophy". However, before this, still maintain a calm optimism, I wish everyone a happy new year. (Holding such a "unsight" mood and happiness, Christmas Night went to see "Hero", but also felt full. Although Zhang Yimou still does not understand how to shoot a second time Movies, but spend three hours with Christmas Night and Three Five friends to eat movies. It is a happy thing to make me happy.) Transparent
December 26, 2002
Beijing
[1] Jacques Lebrun, "People's Issues: About PeopleWare", "Programmer" Journal 2002 No. 12.
[2] Tom Demarco, "Last Term", Tsinghua University Press, December 2002.
