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Bits of Evidence (via) A slide deck from Greg Wilson: “What we actually know about software development, and why we believe it’s true”.

Posted 25th October 2009 at 12:13 pm

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7 comments

  1. *sigh*

    A probably-insightful presentation, shared as a meaningless and ugly slide deck. This is a perfect example of why I consider Slideshare to be the most evil website ever.

    Does there exist a record of what Greg Wilson has to say on this topic, which isn't a contextless list of bullet points?

    Rod Begbie - 26th October 2009 09:44 - #

  2. More on why I consider Slideshare detrimental to society: http://groovymother.com/tag/slideshare/

    Rod Begbie - 26th October 2009 09:51 - #

  3. I second Rod's views on Slideshare.

    Also, I'm having quite a hard time believing the claim on the first slide that nearly 100,000 British sailors died of scurvy in the 7 years war. That's around 2% of the entire British population at that time were that many people even in the Royal Navy at the time? (maybe a citation would be useful)

    Tom - 26th October 2009 16:34 - #

  4. @Tom

    The Royal Navy could impress men into service as they needed them. There were big advantages to volunteering though, for one thing you could avoid your creditors if you joined the Navy.

    Also remember that there were the colonies to draw sailors from ... and they did.

    His numbers probably also included Privateers and the Merchant Navy. During the Seven Years War, the Royal Navy had an average of 74,000 sailors, the Merchant Navy had 37,500 and Privateers 3,300.

    Considering that over 1 million people died in the Seven Years War, having 100,000 die of scurvy doesn't sound completely unreasonable.

    BTW your estimate for the British population are too low by almost half.

    huxley - 27th October 2009 02:33 - #

  5. Low quality it may be, but there is an audio recording of the presetation. I was at this conference (DevDays Toronto), and the presentation was fantastic, so give it a listen.
    http://craigagreen.com/downloads/gregwilson.mp3

    Trevor - 29th October 2009 04:26 - #

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