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The book follows the creation of the Open Source Applications Foundation by Mitch Kapor, the person responsible for Lotus 1-2-3, and the creation of their first product, code named “Chandler,” a sort of PIM that promises to free us from the “brain dead management of attached files,” among other things. It’s an ambitious project to be sure.
The story follows the group of software developers and managers through the process of creating Chandler, through many twists and turns, delays, comings and leavings of staff. Scott also takes you through a very nice interlude of the creation of the software industry, from its beginnings in theory, to some of the latest methodologies for creating software.
What I liked, or I should say, that the author did best, is take the reader to just the right point in the story where you say to yourself, “Even I could run a software project better than this.” I think he does a nice job of challenging the notion that software creation is really “engineering,” and for me, pointing out the challenge of leadership (e.g. the lack of) in many software projects, and I’ll just say, in business in general.
As you’ve seen on here before, I really like a good story, and this is a good one.
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