Comment by nevir 4 days ago Have any companies mastered high craft at scale (like 1000s of engineers)? 4 comments nevir Reply beachy 4 days ago In the classic "the mythical man month", Brooks describes 5000 man years effort in delivering OS/360.I think by any measure that OS/360 would be "high craft". munchbunny 4 days ago Consistently, at scale, and in a durable way: I doubt it. However, I have seen many localized cases of extreme excellence in the places where the company knows it really matters. nevir 4 days ago Yeah. Small groups within it can definitely maintain it rogerrogerr 4 days ago Apple’s hardware side seems pretty great at it. Software maybe less so.
beachy 4 days ago In the classic "the mythical man month", Brooks describes 5000 man years effort in delivering OS/360.I think by any measure that OS/360 would be "high craft".
munchbunny 4 days ago Consistently, at scale, and in a durable way: I doubt it. However, I have seen many localized cases of extreme excellence in the places where the company knows it really matters. nevir 4 days ago Yeah. Small groups within it can definitely maintain it
In the classic "the mythical man month", Brooks describes 5000 man years effort in delivering OS/360.
I think by any measure that OS/360 would be "high craft".
Consistently, at scale, and in a durable way: I doubt it. However, I have seen many localized cases of extreme excellence in the places where the company knows it really matters.
Yeah. Small groups within it can definitely maintain it
Apple’s hardware side seems pretty great at it. Software maybe less so.