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10/03/2001 Entry: "3-October-2001 -- Characterizing People as Non-Linear, First-Order Components in Software Development"

Characterizing People as Non-Linear, First-Order Components in Software Development -- "The short of the story is that we have been designing complex systems whose active components are variable and highly non-linear components called people, without characterizing these components or their effect on the system being designed. Upon reflection, this seems absurd, but remarkably few people in our field have devoted serious energy to understanding how these things called people affect software development." (Comments: Want my sweeping overview? Humans are not resources, humans are humans.)

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