And lo on Thu, 08 Nov 2007 09:38:30 -0000, Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> did
  

spake, saying:

> Phil Cook wrote:
>
>> hmm C=n(h+s)/w where the Complexity of a project is equal to the nu
mber  

>> of people involved multiplied by the number of pieces of hardware and
  

>> sofware required, divided by the number of words used to describe it 
by  

>> a manager-level person.
>
> Wait - that would imply that the complexity of a project decreases wit
h  

> the wordiness of the description. That can't be right... :-P
>
> (I prefer the "comprehension = 2 ^ -precision" that somebody here ha
s as  

> their sig...)

You missed the qualifer - 'manager-level'. "I just need a database to  

store every transaction for the company", "Let's have all our phone call
s  

going over the network?", "We'll just have one piece of software that do
es  

everything?"

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Phil Cook

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