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?
By Ed Yourdon
Posted September 22, 1998 | Leadership | Amplify | Amplify | Amplify | Amplify
About The Author
Ed Yourdon was cofounder, with Karen Coburn, of Cutter Consortium. Ed served as Fellow of the Cutter Business Technology Council, and Founding Editor and Editor Emeritus of the Cutter IT Journal. He chaired Cutter's Summit for many years. Mr. Yourdon is widely known as the lead developer of the structured analysis/design methods of the 1970s. He was a codeveloper of the Yourdon/Whitehead method of object-oriented (OO) analysis/design and the… Read More
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