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January 23, 2007
Speaking of Yahoo's Panama and Large Software Projects
Speaking of Yahoo's Panama, and large software projects in general, I just finished reading Scott Rosenberg's excellent new book Dreaming in Code. The story of the errant and overdue Chandler project, Rosenberg's new book is sobering and required reading for anyone naive enough to still expect miracles from large-scale software development.
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By a strange coincidence, I only found out about the Chandler project today. I was writing something about IBM and their social software thing, and that led me to Lotus and Mitch Kapor -- then I remembered that someone awhile ago had told me about a great Lotus app called Agenda and I looked it up and came across a Wikipedia entry for Chandler. Sounds cool.