"Well, it makes sense to me. Basically, when you start a project you don't know spit, so the initial phases are important. After all, you don't want to build a $50 fence to keep in a $10 horse, so understanding what it is you're trying to do just makes sense to me. Likewise, I like the idea of keeping the payroll down until you have a pretty good idea of what all those people are going to do. Otherwise, you're just paying them to chew tobacco until someone figures out what they should be doing." I was starting to be impressed with Roscoe's appreciation of the situation. "Then I got into the scheduling and estimating end of things. Some pretty smart fellas there. In particular, that guy Barry Boehm and that guy Walker Royce seem to have a handle on some of it. Although their Coconut model is a little high falutin' for me." I cringed, but didn't have the heart to correct him. COCOMO and coconut do sound a little alike, after all. And there were lots of other interpretations you had to make in parsing Roscoe-speak, so this would not be too much of an additional stretch. "Then I got around to reading some Kruchten and Booch, and even stumbled onto your name. Right here," he said, pointing to a page in a dog-eared copy of Grady's book, Object Solutions.[5]
Sure enough, he had me dead to rights. There I was, in black and white, in a footnote on page 136. |