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  1. Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!bloom-picayune.mit.edu!athena.mit.edu!tada
  3. From: tada@athena.mit.edu (Michael J Zehr)
  4. Subject: Re: Will we keep ignoring this productivity issue?
  5. Message-ID: <1992Nov16.195049.12628@athena.mit.edu>
  6. Sender: news@athena.mit.edu (News system)
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  8. Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  9. References: <1776@aviary.Stars.Reston.Unisys.COM> <1992Nov11.055130@eklektix.com> <1992Nov16.160026.7548@athena.mit.edu>
  10. Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 19:50:49 GMT
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  14. Remember a few weeks ago the big discussion about Quality (read
  15. Predictabilty)? 
  16.  
  17. It seems like part of the problem is that software engineers would like
  18. to increase productivity, but software managers would like to increse
  19. predictability.  
  20.  
  21. Are these opposing goals? Probably somewhat -- predictability generally
  22. requires more tracking and measuring.
  23.  
  24. -michael j zehr
  25.  
  26. PS. Research topic: does disbling netnews decrease or increase
  27. productivity?  short-term vs. long-term?  *grin*y
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