Agreed that it was a little disappointing that the tale was not told verbatim. I can assume some confirmation bias in my own take on it, due to my own experiences (my own clay pots "tale" https://www.unresolvedforces.com/ufbook/02_The_Link_to_Agile/03_Moving_away_from_documentation_and_requirements_gathering.html) but also in others. 'How Big Things Get Done' covers it without naming it, iirc, with the idea of smaller, voluminous projects being more likely to be successful, simply because practice makes adept. And I think that was the point of the tale for... (read more)
Agreed that it was a little disappointing that the tale was not told verbatim. I can assume some confirmation bias in my own take on it, due to my own experiences (my own clay pots "tale" https://www.unresolvedforces.com/ufbook/02_The_Link_to_Agile/03_Moving_away_from_documentation_and_requirements_gathering.html) but also in others. 'How Big Things Get Done' covers it without naming it, iirc, with the idea of smaller, voluminous projects being more likely to be successful, simply because practice makes adept. And I think that was the point of the tale for... (read more)