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It's a familiar scenario: you've just been assigned to manage a mission-critical IT project, and you've been told that you've got a schedule of six months, a staff of five people, and a budget of $250,000. But with a little investigation and estimating work, you've concluded that at the very least, it will take 12 months, 10 people, and $1 million. You try to negotiate a more reasonable set of project parameters, but you're told that the deadline is fixed, that no additional people can be hired, and that money is tight.
COPING WITH "IMPOSSIBLE" PROJECT DEMANDS 27 May 1998 by Ed Yourdon
It's a familiar scenario: you've just been assigned to manage a mission-critical IT project, and you've been told that you've got a schedule of six months, a staff
Well, it finally happened: Microsoft's game of "hardball" has resulted in a lawsuit from the Justice Department and from the attorneys general of 20 states. Assuming that there's no last-minute out-of-court settlement (which briefly appeared to be happening last weekend), this is a case that could drag on for years. And, conceivably, it could have as large an impact as the anti-trust lawsuit against IBM in the 1960s and against AT&T in the 1980s.
THE MICROSOFT LAWSUIT 20 May 1998 by Ed Yourdon
Well, it finally happened: Microsoft's game of "hardball" has resulted in a lawsuit from the Justice Department and from the attorneys general of 20 states.
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Reuse and Metrics
As reuse programs gain steam and application development units utilize increasing proportions of reusable components, their total productivity indexes (PIs) will increase. If they don't increase, something is wrong with the reuse program -- it is a signal to look into a problem. That is one of the functions of metrics. "Working PIs," reflecting an application unit's effectiveness in developing new code, serve the same function as management metrics have all along.