Very interesting. I don't think I've seen projects "fail" like that. I've seen proposed solutions change just before a project starts or changes in the...
In a message dated 5/1/2004 4:50:33 AM Pacific Standard Time, peter.lappo@... writes: In fact they consider it more successful if a cheaper solution is...
Alex How many of the projects restarted at a later date had to restart due to requirements that changed or change in management? The fact that a project was...
... <snip> This is a very good question. One of the challenges with the published failure rates is that the definition of failure is fuzzy. Possible issues ...
I agree with you, Paul. In my 16 years in IT I have only once been involved in a failed project. In the first place we inherited the project. At handover we...
I often find that people working on software teams can be poor judges of project success. The low failure rates I hear about when I speak to people who build...
Paul, First, "telefon game within the same individual" is inappropriate. Out of respect to Scott who moderates this list, I will not react the way I would ...
Alex Jouravlev
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May 3, 2004 8:50 pm
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... NSR looks interesting because it is either a "plug point" (e.g. "hot spot") between other stimulus-sets, or else a potential "coupling" point. So does an...
...and so the argument rages on. As I recall, the Standish Group were among the earliest to start publishing a regular report on the state of the industry's...
Even the Standish results are open to doubt: - we do not know their sample space, and hence the biases in their samples. - they do not provide the raw numbers...
... - most of them fail because of non-technical reasons ... - agile methods address some, but not all, of the non-technical reasons for failure - agile...
Hubert Matthews
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May 4, 2004 2:46 pm
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Hi My name is Heidi Coller-James; I am a full time software engineer and I have been working on DSDM projects for 7 years. I am also studying part-time for a...
One of my favorite old-school requirements/design modeling techniques is Event modeling, where you list the things that make the system (a black box) do...
... Use case modelling is supposed to do that. Use cases themselves aren't object oriented, but who cares as long as they get the job done. The standard...
Hubert Matthews
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May 5, 2004 10:31 am
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Yes, archetypes are really powerful. Once stakeholders understand them, everything becomes easier. As well as events (as Yourdon advocated along with...
I agree that Event modelling is a very useful technique. I think it is a pity that UML does not have a concept of Event as a first-class modeling primitive. I...
Ashley McNeile
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May 5, 2004 2:23 pm
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I posted this in the XP group, but I think I should have posted it here as well / instead. Sorry for anyone that has seen this. I'm pasting in my last post on...
I'm currently on a plane so will have missed any other responses to this post on the AM list. My apologies if I'm repeating ideas from other posts. ...
We are a US based MNC,Headquartered at the center of Silicon Valley, and at Bangalore we are building a data management server that will revolutionize the ...
I read these erudite threads with great interest. I follow enough of it to have some understanding of what these threads are about. I really like many of the...
Peter ... This is exactly what we are doing with ModelScope. It is a model execution tool that creates a prototype by direct interpretation of a model. The...
Ashley McNeile
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May 6, 2004 10:59 am
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Ok. So you know what I am saying. That there is an intermediate level of language which is largely not being addressed which fulfils the requirement of...
... Yes, many people unfortunately think that: 1. Modeling ==> Documentation. The reality is that many models are ill-suited for documentation. For example,...
. Scott - I need to define 'documentation'. When I am using the term 'documentation' here, I mean the abstract knowledge of the system, as opposed to the...
In a message dated 5/6/2004 4:35:11 AM Pacific Standard Time, argnosis@... writes: I have, over the years, often been surprised when what used to be ...
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