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- From: marcy@sqwest.wimsey.bc.ca (Marcy Thompson)
- Subject: Re: Why is the Software Process NOT working
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.173643.3196@sqwest.wimsey.bc.ca>
- Organization: SoftQuad Inc., Surrey, British Columbia, CANADA
- References: <C1F1vC.27B@plato.ds.boeing.com> <1k1tasINNan0@andre.d.umn.edu> <1993Jan26.093339.9599@nntpd.lkg.dec.com>
- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 17:36:43 GMT
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- In a recent comp.software-eng article, Lobsang Gyalpo wrote:
- >
- >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. Such people probably wrote in
- >Assembler light years ago and now control the entire Software Development
- >process for their organization. In such cases I believe it is primarily
- >management inaction/ignorance and refusal to get educated that is the
- >cause of the problem. The change has to come from the Top down.
-
- I think there's a lot of truth to this. It reminds me of a group I once worked
- with in the US. The manager was a programmer from the old days at IBM; she
- had worked there in the early 1960s. We were programming in a 4GL which
- was a lot like BASIC in its syntax. The language did have "advanced" flow
- control features such as "do while" and "do until", though. We were not
- allowed to use them. The manager felt that the use of subroutines was
- the right way to program and would reject any code which did not use
- subroutines as the only method of controlling flow.
-
- Want to guess what year I worked for this woman?
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-
- 1990.
-
- Marcy
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- Marcy Thompson
- SoftQuad (West)
- marcy@sqwest.wimsey.bc.ca (preferred) or marcy@sq.com
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