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Were staff added to the Collins submarine computerization project when it was already supposedly running late,

November 14th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Нас не догонят asked:
thereby exacerbating the problem and causing the project to run later ?
(as explained in “The mythical man-month”)
The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering is a book on software project management by Fred Brooks, whose central theme is that “Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later.” This idea is [...]

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Is it likely that more prototyping would have helped, for Collins submarine computerization ?

October 12th, 2008 · 2 Comments

supergrass207 asked:
“The systems upon which I work are intentionally divided into components that have some independence. In that way the components can be developed on different time scales. The features needed first can be made available first and features are not required to be installed until they are needed. A physical system example was [...]

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