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- "Of Zeppelins and Jet Planes - On the Nature of Software
and the Laws of Software Process"
Most of the tasks, processes, and expectations of software project
management are based on the notion that the purpose of the development
activity is to produce a system that is delivered to a customer.
As
intuitive as it appears, this view is seriously flawed and results
in many of the perennial difficulties we experience in managing
the creation of software: difficulty in estimation, problems with
resources and schedule, quality issues, and customer satisfaction.
There
is a simple idea that underlies the concept of software that radically
alters our understanding of the creation of software products and
the purpose of software process.
In
this presentation, an explanation of the true nature of software
is given. The Laws of Software Process
under which software process operates are identified, and a new
approach to software management is presented. The presentation
identifies some underlying principles of knowledge, the real sources
of productivity, the true purpose of processes and methodologies,
the actual job of the management structure, and the radical mindshift
that will occur in the successful software development organizations
of the immediate future.
It is also probably
the only presentation on software that includes a collection of Paleolithic
hand axes.
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