Re: smart people doing stupid things

On Fri, 17 May 2024 16:55:57 -0400, Joe Gwinn <joegwinn@comcast.net>
wrote:

On Fri, 17 May 2024 13:14:30 -0700, John Larkin
<jjSNIPlarkin@highNONOlandtechnology.com> wrote:
>

On Fri, 17 May 2024 15:36:55 -0400 (EDT), Martin Rid
<martin_riddle@verison.net> wrote:
>

John Larkin <jjSNIPlarkin@highNONOlandtechnology.com> Wrote in
message:r

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Peima-Uw7wSee graph at 9:50 in.I see this a lot, engineers wanting to do complex stuff because it'samusing to them, when simple common-sense things would work and bedone.

>
My current project requires iec62304  and it is amusing .
>
Cheers

>
Yikes. What does it cost to buy the standard? Does it reference other
standards?

>
It's 345 Swiss franks (USD 380).  Probably cites many things, so you
may need a bunch of these expensive standards. 
>
It documents the now obsolete waterfall model of software development,
at great length, for medical devices.
>
.<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEC_62304>
>
I've had to follow this approach (but not this standard), and it
didn't go well, because it didn't deal with practical constraints at
all.  The electronic-design parallel would be a process that requires
that a transistor with very specific properties exist and be
available.  But in the real world, we have to use the transistors that
are available, even if they are not perfect - make what you want from
what you can get.
>
The solution was to design from the middle out, and when it all
settled down, document as if it were developed from the top down.
>
Joe Gwinn

That's the Microsoft Project Effect: the more tasks you define in a
project, the longer it takes.