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SURVEY SHOWS LARGE PERCENTAGE OF COMPANIES WITH SIZABLE APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT BACKLOGS 16 February 1999 by Cutter Consortium
Over 30% of companies surveyed said they had a 13- to 24-month backlog in application development, according to Chris Pickering, author of the 1998
Last summer, I had an experience that continues to make me think. I was at an IFPUG conference (the International Function Points User's Group is an organization committed to refining techniques for software measurement), and I was talking with a manager who had been successful in manufacturing for a large multinational company and now had duties in IT. Because he was new to IT, he felt tentative about his new responsibilities and was looking for ideas.
There are two worlds of IT. The first world is based on ideas refined over many years about what constitutes excellence in software development and IT. Second-world companies operate in treacherous, rapidly changing business environments, under constant market pressures.