E-MailSoftware Project Planning: Part I -- What Can We Learn from Star Trek?
Who was it who said "Always multiply your estimates by a factor of four so that you will be known as a miracle worker"? It wasn't Jack Welch, it wasn't Andy Grove, and it wasn't even Tom Peters. This gem actually comes from an exchange between Captain Kirk and his crew in the movie Star Trek III. It was quoted in an article that appeared a while back in CrossTalk, the journal of defense software engineering, and its author, David Webb, claims that all we need to know to manage a software project we can learn from watching Star Trek (tongue in cheek, of course). 1
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