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Date: Sat, 27 Dec 2008 11:36:33 +0100
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On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 06:04:42AM +0000, Eris Discordia wrote:
> "it all begins with Adam and Steve," as Brian Stuart suggests, ways have
> been found of managing large teams of people with different specializations
> and those ways work. The Mgmt has a raison d'etre, despite what
> techno-people like to suggest.

Because when, say Napoleon was commanding hundreds of thousands of
soldiers, he was not commanding individually hundreds of thousands of
soldiers. But he gave order to a handful, giving orders each to a
handful etc. But is was his idea that was going from to to bottom.

French: "main tenir": holding ("tenir") in one hand ("main").

You can "maintenir" a huge software if it is orthogonalized: when you
take one piece, not the whole plate of spaghetti comes (it just pulling
on the articulation, the communication, the API with the rest).

And for people, the military adds: hold in one hand, so the other is
free to slap when needed (and a foot free to kick if first lesson was
not received strong enough).
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Thierry Laronde (Alceste) <tlaronde +AT+ polynum +dot+ com>
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