"Surviving in the marketplace means ‘first to market.’"

-- Stephen E. Cross, Director,
Software Engineering Institute,
Carnegie Mellon University [1]

"It's still hard to build software quickly, reliably, and of high quality.... Software is increasingly more critical, it needs to be delivered faster, and it needs to be of higher quality."

-- Eric Schurr,
Rational Software Corporation,
Toronto Worldwide Symposium, 1999