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>>11973779
Pretty cool articles, thanks for posting, it surprised me to see that, for very large projects, productivity between the worst and best approach each other. Still, when this guy talks about small projects, he means one man-month projects, whereas a small project in my world would be more like half a day. I very much agree that experienced engineers on large projects should spend their time breaking down the problem into chunks and providing the tools and processes to help others be productive. I'm not experienced, but I've been spearheading a large FEM project, but have done almost no meshing at all! I spend all of my time developing trackers, reviewing others' part meshes, creating tools that simplify certain repetitive tasks, coordinating with design engineers when the design they provide doesn't work, etc. The sad truth is, every good engineer eventually becomes at least a part-time manager.