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<blockquote data-quote="broghammerj" data-source="post: 3941799" data-attributes="member: 1869">Note Delericho, this is not a criticism of you but of Fred Banks assumptions.I am not familiar with &quot;The Mythical Man-Month&quot; but I am a surgeon (urologist) and while this type of thinking is often applied to surgery, I think it's a bit inappropriate or more accurately, over simplified.&nbsp; As the &quot;lead architect&quot; I am responsible for the overall design but am also doing most of the direct work.&nbsp; The surgical team is doing things to make my job possible but not necessarily doing the surgery.&nbsp; The exception would be anesthesia, which has an active role in keeping the patient alive and responding to things that I am doing.&nbsp; I guess I would call them my surgical co-pilot, but a more fair comparison would be the navigator.&nbsp; I could be flying the plane really well (as in not crashing), but they may tell me I am way off course.&nbsp; To use an example of other OR team members, the scrub tech is handing me instruments so I can operate, but they are not actually doing the operation.To come back to RPG design....The designer/author has a vision for the mechanic or game system which would never be brought to fruition if there weren't typesetters, artists, copy editors, etc.&nbsp; Ultimately, the game design work is in the designer's hands but the other elements are required to make a book.This discussion of various team members Bank's allude to would be more like 4 surgeons were in the room doing the same surgical case with no one really solely responsible for the patient........DISASTER!The only exception is in reference to safety.&nbsp; If anyone in the OR thinks something has gone wrong, the lead surgeon is alerted to make the decision to remedy the problem.&nbsp; The could be equated to the impact of multiple designers in that one is likely to raise a red flag if something looks really wrong with the game design.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="broghammerj, post: 3941799, member: 1869"] Note Delericho, this is not a criticism of you but of Fred Banks assumptions. I am not familiar with "The Mythical Man-Month" but I am a surgeon (urologist) and while this type of thinking is often applied to surgery, I think it's a bit inappropriate or more accurately, over simplified. As the "lead architect" I am responsible for the overall design but am also doing most of the direct work. The surgical team is [B]doing things to make my job possible[/B] but not necessarily doing the surgery. The exception would be anesthesia, which has an active role in keeping the patient alive and responding to things that I am doing. I guess I would call them my surgical co-pilot, but a more fair comparison would be the navigator. I could be flying the plane really well (as in not crashing), but they may tell me I am way off course. To use an example of other OR team members, the scrub tech is handing me instruments so I can operate, but they are not actually doing the operation. To come back to RPG design....The designer/author has a vision for the mechanic or game system which would never be brought to fruition if there weren't typesetters, artists, copy editors, etc. Ultimately, the game design work is in the designer's hands but the other elements are required to make a book. This discussion of various team members Bank's allude to would be more like 4 surgeons were in the room doing the same surgical case with no one really solely responsible for the patient........DISASTER! The only exception is in reference to safety. If anyone in the OR thinks something has gone wrong, the lead surgeon is alerted to make the decision to remedy the problem. The could be equated to the impact of multiple designers in that one is likely to raise a red flag if something looks really wrong with the game design. [/QUOTE]

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