I read a while back on Jeff Atwood’s blog about a paper written by Tom DeMarco. Tom was one of the forces behind the development of structured analysis. Many years after bringing structure and metrics to software development, Tom DeMarco, one of the big proponents of Software Engineering, has stated that he no longer believes [...]
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Software engineering is dead
August 7th, 2009 · View Comments · Architecture
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Feature-driven versus Date-driven
October 20th, 2008 · View Comments · Consulting
Very interesting blog post by a developer at Microsoft (http://blogs.msdn.com/e7/archive/2008/10/15/engineering-7-a-view-from-the-bottom.aspx). He describes what it’s been like working at Microsoft, comparing the Vista days to the current “Windows 7″ days.
What it boils down to is that Microsoft has switched from a Feature-driven development strategy to a Date-driven strategy. It should come as no great [...]
