• To: <uche.ogbuji@f...>,"'Eric Bohlman'" <ebohlman@e...>
• Subject: RE: Objections to / uses of PSVI?
• From: Bill de hÓra <dehora@e...>
• Date: Sat, 18 May 2002 17:49:08 +0100
• Cc: "'xml-dev'" <xml-dev@l...>
• Importance: Normal
• In-reply-to: <200205181451.g4IEpjD10248@l...>

 
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>Eric Bohlman
> 
> > There's a principle of genetics known as Fisher's 
> Fundamental Theorem 
> > of Natural Selection (after
> > Sir Ronald Fisher) which states that the better adapted an 
> organism is to its current environment, 
> > the less of a change in its environment it can survive.  
> Gerald Weinberg has observed that this 
> > applies to human inventions as much as to natural 
> organisms, and it particularly applies to 
> > programs and the systems they're part of.  

cf Tom de Marco's "Slack". Premise: highly efficient organisations
are not adaptive.

Bill de hÓra


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