Wednesday, 7 November 2007
Software Development Process: Treat the Symptoms rather than the Cause
I know, I know I sound like an old LP with a crack that make the song repeating itself but it seems that certain things are coming back over and over even though there is no proof that it is working. A process is there to make sure that repetitive actions are executed correctly. Now the question is is software development are repetitive task? In my opinion for the most part it is not and if it were we could easily automate it. So why is this theme coming back over and over again, you may ask. It is because the managers, executives and maybe some project leaders would like to make it so so that software development becomes controllable and easy to manage. Controllable because they want to assess the risks and then minimize it and Easy because they don't want to work hard for it. And then, not to forget, there are many consultants out there that make big bucks with feeding into that hunger even though the results are nearly non-existent.
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