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By Warren Spector
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April 16, 2003

 


 


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GDC 2003 Video:
Fred Brooks' "Little to Big: What Changes?"

Programming effort in a start-up (company or project) usually begins with a solo programmer and grows to a small team. Then, with luck, it grows to a large team. And radically changes character! Here lurk all the difficulties of software engineering. Growth is gradual, and change often imperceptible, until suddenly the project is in trouble. Process discipline has become necessary, often well before it was developed. What discipline? When? How, without dampening creativity?

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