Posts Tagged 'Tom-Demarco'

Time to rethink software engineering? Tom DeMarco thinks it could be

 Kim Leonard | Jul 21, 2009  2 Responses
Jul 212009
 
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Cutter Fellow Tom DeMarco‘s IEEE Software Computing Now magazine editorial Software Engineering: An Idea Whose Time Has Come and Gone? has caused quite a stir. Tom’s article has spread like wildfire through the Twitterverse (beginning with @yourdon), and has inspired many surprised (and insightful) blog posts.  Johannes Ernst finds Tom’s statement that he’s “gradually coming to the conclusion that software engineering is an idea whose time has come and gone” as shocking as “the pope declaring that perhaps god doesn’t exist.” Coding Horror‘s Jeff Atwood went further, stating “If your head just exploded, don’t be alarmed. Mine did too.” In the piece, Tom re-evaluates his trademark focus on metrics and control (including his oft-quoted “You …

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It Won’t Be Déjà  Vu

 Anne Mullaney | Jun 22, 2009  No Responses
Jun 222009
 
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Last December, we asked the Cutter Business Technology Council to provide some advice for surviving the recession. Since there are now some signs that things are beginning to turn around, we thought it would be interesting to see what the Council thinks will be different as we emerge from the recession. The consensus: Post-recovery ? Pre-crash. Here are a few impressions of the future: Tom DeMarco predicts: “In organizations whose decision makers are fear-crazed and vision-free, new IT expenditures will have to be justified largely on offset maintenance cost. Companies that pursue this course will be the best takeover targets in the coming years. Companies that are best at resisting this course will be the ones …

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Cutter Fellows’ Advice for Surviving the Recession

 Anne Mullaney | Dec 18, 2008  4 Responses
Dec 182008
 
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The unraveling global economy and its effect on our companies and our lives is about the only thing on people’s minds these days. So we asked the Cutter Business Technology Council Fellows for their advice to IT leaders about how to survive during this financial mess. Here are some snippets of what they advised. Tom DeMarco: “Take a deep breath and … reduce salaries. There is an unwritten law in companies that salaries can go up but can never go down. Repeal it. If you’re faced with a mandate to cut personnel costs by, say, 10%, you could do that by laying off 10% of staff. That way all of the pain is absorbed by …

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