The Laws of Software Process

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Of Methods and Models and Minds

skill. There are characteristics of people that are not intellectual skills.

There are people who are skilled but not capable.

People are created differently and through application of their skills,

through life experience, and through their inclinations, end up with differ-

ent capabilities. But the source of the problem is not in differences. In fact,

it is the differences rather than the similarities that make project teams

effective. As Henry Ford once remarked, “Whenever two people always

agree, one of them is unnecessary.” People come in a range of abilities and

temperaments. Some are literal information processors and highly detailed

in focus while others are conceptual and “big-picture” thinkers. Some peo-