Competition LO16830

Ray Evans Harrell (mcore@IDT.NET)
Tue, 03 Feb 1998 15:00:55 -0800

Replying to LO16740 --

Freddy Holwerda wrote:

> Another dangerous thing with competition IMHO is the measurement and
> importance of the things you compete on.Tom DeMarco, a strong supporter of
> the need for measurement in software development, asserts that: "You
> cannot control what you cannot measure". Competition will always find
> place on things you can measure, thereby (most likely) excluding the
> things that cannot be measured. But maybe (just maybe) it are these things
> that give the winner the possibility and opportunity to win.

Freddy,

Mental models again, or maybe John Warfield's coherent and incoherent
systems? Interesting.

REH

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