My accordian's stuffed full of paper
Dave Brown · ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes · 1984
Once upon a time I thought there was a fixed amount of energy that a development team could put on a project in any given period of time, and I simply had to allocate that to productive and non-productive tasks. Woe and behold, Dick Orgass corrected me. He noted that projects which write large papers about their design get far less done than ones which keep their non-productive tasks under stricter control, even with the same amount of resources.This is a paper about why .