9 | 1999
In This Issue:
| Introduction Ed Yourdon High-Leverage Best Practices: What Hot Companies Are Doing to Stay Ahead Norm Brown Building Highly Effective SPI Projects: What You Must Do Right Rita Hadden Software Processes and Software Professionals in the 21st Century Anthony I. Wasserman Adaptive Management: Patterns for the e-business Era Jim Highsmith Show Me How to Do That: "Just Enough" Software Process for the 21st Century Dwayne Phillips One of the many things software professionals must think about is the kind of software processes and practices they'll use in the decade ahead. For example, though the much-maligned waterfall development approach is nearly 30 years old, it continues to be used in many organizations around the world. Is it now time to retire it to the Methodology Hall of Fame? And the various combinations of prototyping, spiral, and iterative lifecycle approaches to software development have now been discussed, debated, and practiced for nearly 20 years. Is it time for them to assume dominance? Or will they be replaced by an entirely different set of processes and practices attuned to such things as e-commerce and Web- based applications? |
