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- From: amby <amby@mixcom.mixcom.com>
- Subject: Re: Why is the Software Process NOT working
- Organization: Milwaukee Internet Xchange BBS, Milwaukee, WI U.S.A.
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- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 12:38:46 GMT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.123846.20906@mixcom.com>
- References: <1993Jan19.155446.13593@cs.few.eur.nl> <1993Jan20.132009.10982@cc.gatech.edu> <C1F1vC.27B@plato.ds.boeing.com> <1k1tasINNan0@andre.d.umn.edu> <1993Jan26.093339.9599@nntpd.lkg.dec.com>
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- In <1993Jan26.093339.9599@nntpd.lkg.dec.com> lobsang@vnaact.dec.com (Lobsang Gyalpo) writes:
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- >After all if an organization already has a decent Software Process in place,
- >then most probably the newcomer will adjust and grow into it. Here in Austria,
- >I have seen many organizations that are at the Initial Level of the CMM. In
- >such organizations I observed that the people in power were the ones that rose
- >up in the organization heirarchy and that their knowledge of modern Software
- >Development technology was absolute zilch. ...
-
- My experience tells me it is the same here (at least in companies
- that I have worked for). In these organizations, some of the
- managers have no degrees at all, while the software engineers
- have the necessary training, but are not allowed to apply it.
- --
- Donald E. Amby
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