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- From: vtg@mitre.org (Victor Giddings)
- Subject: Re: Why and how do organizations select the OO
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- References: <1jo805INNfe@emx.cc.utexas.edu> <1993Jan22.144817.23862@mcc.com>
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 21:44:12 GMT
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- > In article 1jo805INNfe@emx.cc.utexas.edu, kalakota@emx.cc.utexas.edu (Ravi Kalakota) writes:
- >
- > Why and how do organizations select the OO approach to Software Eng.
- >
- >... There is an amazing lack of objective, evaluative literature
-
- Before this goes too far ...
-
- No one PROVED that a word processor is "better" than a typewriter (in fact
- some studies suggested that they are equally productive and that quality
- remained a subjective matter). That does not, however, give me ammunition
- to take away my secretary's word processor (let alone the courage). And
- there is little debate in industry any more.
-
- >on the selection of methodologies
- >in software engineering. We seem to be carried away by the bandwagon effect
- >and are not spending enough time understanding the pluses and minuses of
- >new methodologies, their effectiveness in various types of application
- >development areas and their effect on people. I may sound pessimistic but
- >it is definitely time that we understood what external factors impact the
- >selection of methodologies and what impact does the selection of a methodology
- >have on the effectiveness of the development group. While the technical side
- >has progressed and is progressing, the management side is limping along with
- >lame theorizing which almost always has no practical value.
-
-
- Ultimately, we will probably have to depend on the informed opinion of
- experienced practicioners. Real projects have too many variables to serve
- as controlled experiments, even if someone were willing to fund parallel
- developments.
-
-
- > [much deleted]
-