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IT OUTSOURCING: ALIGNING YOUR PRODUCTIVITY EXPECTATIONS 23 June 1999 by Michael Mah

Recently, a colleague of mine forwarded the following headline to me via e-mail. It read:

The current upsurge of component-based development (CBD) reflects the attraction of the plug-and-play metaphor in software development. A component is a black box that talks to its customers through its interfaces alone. Simply plug the boxes together, and there's an application. Great! So why is CBD not the cure-all that some folks would have us believe? There are lots of answers to that question. Right now, I'd like to focus on one piece: specification.

IT OUTSOURCING: ALIGNING YOUR PRODUCTIVITY EXPECTATIONS 23 June 1999 by Michael Mah

Recently, a colleague of mine forwarded the following headline to me via e-mail. It read: