Sublime

On larger projects it is very rarely workable, for two reasons. First, the man with strong management talent and strong technical talent is rarely found. Thinkers are rare; doers are rarer; and thinker-doers are rarest.

Lehman and Belady offer evidence that quanta should be very large and widely spaced or else very small and frequent.[14] The latter strategy is more subject to instability, according to their model. My experience confirms it: I would never risk that strategy in practice.