Death March
- p 11: Marine Corps mentality => real programmers don’t need sleep
- p 38:
- “Don’t let yourself become too emotionally attached to the outcome of the death project”
- “Do anything in your your mind off of work as much as possible”
- p 40: “Society is governed by mediocrity” by Nietsche
- p 47: “loser user”, is a person whose interests would be harmed if the project succeeds
- p 52: determining the basic nature of the project (Kamikaze, Mission Impossible, Suicide, Ugly)
- p 63: “the lost squadron”, means don’t know which direction to go because every time the direction is changing (think of scope creep)
- p 64: The Dilberts Principle - leadership is nature’s way of removing morons from the productive flow
- p 64: Wallstreet Method - Calibrating the physical stamina and emotional strength of the team with the help of a false crisis
- p 65: “People get married, they do have children and they do have to attend to other demands of personal life” - you can’t be sure about 100% commitment
- p 67: “Only free,em can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts.” Nelson Mandela
- p 93: significant impact on motivation has rewards overtime
- p 94: “The journey is the reward” - Steve Jobs Macintosh R project
- p 130: essence of best practice: Follow a set of practices that the team itself regards as the “best” for the circumstances
- p 158~~159: Brooks Law~~ adding more people to a late software project just makes it later (the new people have to be trained and this consumes time)
- p 171: how to remove yourself and your team from the surroundings of dysfunctional behavior- via the skunk works approach, that means remove yourself from the normal office environment and hunkers down in an empty warehouse
- p 190: “The daily build is the heartbeat of the project. It’s how you know you’re alive.” - Jim McCarthy
- p 198: use mini-postmortems to review small progress of your project
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p 212: “Doing something new requires the flexibility to get it wrong in the first iteration without becoming desperate” - Sharon Marsh Roberts
- death_march_vocabularly.pdf