Unlike the blind men, the programmers on a given project know what the finished product is supposed to be.
Maybe not. There are probably hotshot programmers out there who might decide to put wheels on the elephant instead of legs, just to soup things up a bit.
After all, if you can assemble an elephant Lego(TM) style, you shouldn't be limited to just legs, right?
Show me a project where every developer knows how every aspect of the product will be implemented and I'll show you a project so small it barely needs a project manager at all. Besides which, the finished product is not an invisible elephant, the project is. Show me a project where every developer understands how every aspect of the project is going to be executed and I'll show you a project with only one developer.
Or, you could read and comprehend just a bit and realize that he's saying there are many different components in a large project and the members of the programming team should be free to latch on to parts they find interesting, rather than having a manager tell each one of them what to do and hardly anobody enjoying the part their working on.
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"The hands that help are better far than the lips that pray."
-- Robert G. Ingersoll
The analogy doesn't hold (Score:5, Insightful)
Unlike the blind men, the programmers on a given project know what the finished product is supposed to be.
If you know you're building an elephant, and someone hands you the tail...you're not going to think the whole thing looks like a snake. Sorry.
This strikes me as nothing more than a cutesey metaphor laden book for your PHB.
Weaselmancer
The analogy does hold (Score:2, Insightful)
Maybe not. There are probably hotshot programmers out there who might decide to put wheels on the elephant instead of legs, just to soup things up a bit.
After all, if you can assemble an elephant Lego(TM) style, you shouldn't be limited to just legs, right?
Re:The analogy doesn't hold (Score:1)
Ha-ha, you're funny. Pull the other one
Re:The analogy doesn't hold (Score:1)
Re:The analogy doesn't hold (Score:1)
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