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<blockquote data-quote="delericho" data-source="post: 3941568" data-attributes="member: 22424">In &quot;The Mythical Man-month&quot;, Fred Brooks discusses a design model similar to a surgery team, where the design is guided by a lead architect, who is responsible for the overall structure of the design, while the work of actually realising that design is split between the various team members. This would seem to combine the best of the &quot;uncompromising single vision&quot; and the &quot;team-working&quot; models.This would allow many people to bring their ideas to the table, and if they fit the global vision they can be incorporated, while if they do not they get held for some theoretical future edition.That said, when I read &quot;The Mythical Man-Month&quot;, I decided such a team structure would suck for everyone except for the lead architect, so I'm not sure I actually recommend it.(I'm not sure that adds anything to the discussion. Just thought I'd throw it out there.)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="delericho, post: 3941568, member: 22424"] In "The Mythical Man-month", Fred Brooks discusses a design model similar to a surgery team, where the design is guided by a lead architect, who is responsible for the overall structure of the design, while the work of actually realising that design is split between the various team members. This would seem to combine the best of the "uncompromising single vision" and the "team-working" models. This would allow many people to bring their ideas to the table, and if they fit the global vision they can be incorporated, while if they do not they get held for some theoretical future edition. That said, when I read "The Mythical Man-Month", I decided such a team structure would suck for everyone except for the lead architect, so I'm not sure I actually recommend it. (I'm not sure that adds anything to the discussion. Just thought I'd throw it out there.) [/QUOTE]

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