"APL is like a diamond. It has a beautiful crystal structure; all of its parts are related in a uniform and elegant way. But if you try to extend this structure in any way - even by adding another diamond you get an ugly kludge. LISP, on the other had, is like a ball of mud. You can add any amount of mud to it and it still looks like a ball of mud." -- Joel Moses


"Project management is like a muddy diamond. It looks messy, dirty, and worse than useless from the outside, and contains an elegant structure on the inside. Unfortunately, if you wash the mud off to get a good look, or to make it pretty, you expose razor-sharp facets on which you are certain to cut yourself badly." --Strata Chalup

The Muddy Diamond Bar & Grill
A log of pointers, practices, war stories, and miscellany, documenting the author's increasing involvement with software project management in specific, as well as project management in general.

Links: Project Mgmt Resources


Other Blogs by Strata

JDYDJ: The Sysadmins Corner

Patterns in Systems Administration

Scale Away: Solving C10K

It Works for Me-- Stuff I like, use, or recommend

FYI-- Useful and interesting things to know

Radio Free KF6NBZ-- Amateur Radio kibbles and bits

Strata's BayLISA Working Area

Mobilis in Mobili-- Changing in a Sea of Change This page is powered by Blogger. Isn't yours?

Friday, March 02, 2001

Is your office a "White Collar Sweatshop"? Do you protect the folks you are managing from having their lives taken over by work, or do you think it's just part of the job?

posted by Strata Chalup at 11:23 AM


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