Aesop's Fables of Software Development
Development lessons for the ages.
AT ONE TIME the Horse had the plain entirely to himself. Then a Stag intruded into his domain and shared his pasture. The Horse, desiring to revenge himself on the stranger, asked a man if he were willing to help him in punishing the Stag. The man replied that if the Horse would receive a bit in his mouth and agree to carry him, he would contrive effective weapons against the Stag. The Horse consented and allowed the man to mount him. From that hour he found that instead of obtaining revenge on the...
2500 years ago, a man named Aesop gathered the accumulated software development knowledge of the ancient Greeks, and presented the knowledge to history. However, since so few people in the intervening millennia knew anything about software, they misinterpreted Aesop's lessons as simple morality fables, rather than as hard advice for software managers. Now you can learn what Aesop had to teach us about software development processes and management. The pioneering programmer known as Aesop is still...