In Mike's message he wrote:
>Actually, Jim Coplien has been mining the patterns of successful software
>development organizations for the last ~7 years or so and one of the
>patterns he found was SizeTheOrganization.
>
>More info at:
>http://www.bell-labs.com/cgi-user/OrgPatterns/OrgPatterns?SizeTheOrganization
That URL returns an error page: "You don't have permission to create new
pages! Sorry."
Counter-intuitively, you then need to follow the link on that error page
to "WebIndex" to find an alphabetically ordered list, which includes a
link to the Web-page Mike cites.
Trying their "Findpage" link on the same error page does not show any hits
for either "SizeTheOrganization" or "Jim Coplien".
I do wonder (slightly tongue in cheek) about the value of a search engine
that provides such a result.
Martin
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