{"id":1057,"date":"2007-01-14T21:46:44","date_gmt":"2007-01-15T02:46:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alevin.com\/?p=1057"},"modified":"2007-01-14T21:46:44","modified_gmt":"2007-01-15T02:46:44","slug":"scott-rosenberg-on-software-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/?p=1057","title":{"rendered":"Scott Rosenberg on software development"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Caught <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cioinsight.com\/print_article2\/0,1217,a=197892,00.asp\">author interview<\/a> with Scott Rosenberg, about his new book about the Chandler project and software development.  I like Rosenberg&#8217;s writing, but I haven&#8217;t read the book yet.<br \/>\nFrom the interview, Rosenberg sees Chandler&#8217;s failure-to-thrive as a cautionary tale about all software development. However, Chandler actually had a distinctively awkward set of initial conditions:<br \/>\n* architecture driven. They had a grand vision of a message-based storage model that they needed to get perfect before they did anything<br \/>\n* clearer vision of architecture than application.   Reading Chandler&#8217;s material, there was no clearly articulated goal beyond a free clone of Outlook (though that alone wouldn&#8217;t have been a bad thing)<br \/>\n* infinite budget.  Open source, with a wealthy funder. No economic constraints or time pressure to keep them on the straight and narrow. No personal itch-scratching, unlike the classic open source story.<br \/>\nPlenty of software projects fail because they don&#8217;t adhere to the logical set of constraints.  Chandler started without the constraints.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Caught author interview with Scott Rosenberg, about his new book about the Chandler project and software development. I like Rosenberg&#8217;s writing, but I haven&#8217;t read the book yet. From the interview, Rosenberg sees Chandler&#8217;s failure-to-thrive as a cautionary tale about all software development. However, Chandler actually had a distinctively awkward set of initial conditions: * &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/?p=1057\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Scott Rosenberg on software development&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prDRq-h3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1057\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}