Comments on: Notes from Alistair Cockburn’s Talk at the Seattle APLN Meeting http://www.brokenbuild.com/blog/2007/10/16/notes-from-alistair-cockburns-talk-at-the-seattle-apln-meeting/ Databases, code and all things agile. Thu, 09 Feb 2012 09:19:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Alistair Cockburn http://www.brokenbuild.com/blog/2007/10/16/notes-from-alistair-cockburns-talk-at-the-seattle-apln-meeting/#comment-37956 Alistair Cockburn Tue, 23 Oct 2007 01:40:54 +0000 http://www.brokenbuild.com/blog/2007/10/16/notes-from-alistair-cockburns-talk-at-the-seattle-apln-meeting/#comment-37956 <p>Alistair here ... Just one caution about your opening sentence: "One person generally makes a project successful..." I don't think I said that, and I'm sure I can't defend that. What I can defend (and probably said) is that I having been studying lately how often it turns out that one person was key to making a project successful.</p> <p>That may seem a small difference to some, but "It's interesting how often one person is critical" is quite different in it's implications to "One person generally makes a project successful", and I'd rather not have people quoting this blog incorrectly on that.</p> <p>Also, I'd like to make it clear for those who weren't in the room that I'm not talking about those "heroes" that so often get aspersion cast upon them for working late hours, etc. I'm really talking about individual people on projects whose presence makes such a large difference in the outcome. Can be personality, can be talent, can be whatever.</p> <p>All that having been said, many thanks for taking notes and posting them. cheers,Alistair</p> Alistair here … Just one caution about your opening sentence: “One person generally makes a project successful…” I don’t think I said that, and I’m sure I can’t defend that. What I can defend (and probably said) is that I having been studying lately how often it turns out that one person was key to making a project successful.

That may seem a small difference to some, but “It’s interesting how often one person is critical” is quite different in it’s implications to “One person generally makes a project successful”, and I’d rather not have people quoting this blog incorrectly on that.

Also, I’d like to make it clear for those who weren’t in the room that I’m not talking about those “heroes” that so often get aspersion cast upon them for working late hours, etc. I’m really talking about individual people on projects whose presence makes such a large difference in the outcome. Can be personality, can be talent, can be whatever.

All that having been said, many thanks for taking notes and posting them. cheers,Alistair

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