Some ineffective development practices have been chosen so often, by so many people, with such predictable, bad results that they deserve to be called "classic mistakes." Most of the mistakes have a seductive appeal. Do you need to rescue a project that's behind schedule? Add more people! Do you want to reduce your schedule? Schedule more aggressively! Is one of your key contributors aggravating the rest of the team? Wait until the end of the project to fire him! Do you have a rush project to complete? Take whatever developers are available right now and get started as soon as possible!
D. Bernstein. Daniel J. Bernstein
Department of Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science (M/C 249), University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL 606077045, USA, (ноября 2007)