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A DISTURBANCE IN THE FORCE by Ed Yourdon

One of my favorite scenes from the old Star Wars movie was Obi-Wan Kenobi's sixth-sense recognition that one of the rebel planets has been completely obliterated by Darth Vader's sinister "death star." With profound sorrow and sadness,

A recent study from Cutter Consortium's e-Project Management Advisory Service looked at how much voluntary overtime developers were working. It found that companies that had developers working more than 10 hours per week in voluntary overtime suffered in a number of areas when compared to companies that did not have developers working more than 10 hours per week.

I've been rather amused by the number of Y2K-related e-mail messages I've received since 11 September -- though I dearly wish that the events that prompted those messages had never occurred.