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Many people believe that software development organizations will make major changes to their software development processes in the new millennium.
Many people believe that software development organizations will make major changes to their software development processes in the new millennium. These people think that the Year 2000 problem has been an effective wakeup call for these organizations, which will now proceed to invest heavily in improving their software development processes.
In the mid-1970s, Bob Taylor, Alan Kay, and others at Xerox PARC articulated a vision of distributed personal computing.
In the mid-1970s, Bob Taylor, Alan Kay, and others at Xerox PARC articulated a vision of distributed personal computing. The PC revolution of the 1980s achieved the "personal" aspect of the vision, while in the 1990s, the Internet phenomenon is completing the "distributed" side.
Software process in the 21st century will best be described by two words: just enough.
Silver bullets and wooden stakes are time-tested components for dealing with vampires and werewolves. Of course, you have to remember which component is to be applied to which monster. Unfortunately, you also have to be at pretty close range to use these components. Use the wrong one, and you are unlikely to have a second chance.
Many leading companies in software engineering outperform median companies by at least 50:1 in terms of the efficiency of their software processes as measured by the

