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Are Y2000 Projects Easier than "Normal" Projects?

by Ed Yourdon

A respected colleague who specializes in CASE tools and object- oriented methodologies wrote to me a few days ago, suggesting that a comparison between large Y2000 projects and large "normal" projects was like comparing apples and oranges. "All in all," he suggested, "Y2000 projects lack many of the complexity drivers which condemn a large percentage of new developments to failure. This should mean that they are generally much more likely to be completed in time."

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Are Y2000 Projects Easier than "Normal" Projects? 23 September 1998

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