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IT'S THE EXPECTATIONS, STUPID! by Rob Thomsett Ask a stupid question and you get a stupid answer.
Strategic Intelligence: The Business of Coevolution by Stowe Boyd

Over the past few months, I have swept through what I think of as the key priorities for business today.

OO METHODOLOGY ISSUES: WHAT ARE THEY AND DO THEY MATTER? by Katherine Whitehead WHY IS A METHOD NEEDED FOR OBJECT-ORIENTED DEVELOPMENT?
UML: A CURSE OR A BLESSING FOR THE OO COMMUNITY? by Peter Hrushka

Most methodologies are short on "method" and long on "ology." When writing this article about the UML, I remembered this quote from the good old Yourdon days of structured methods.

GOOD NEWS, BAD NEWS: A PRACTITIONER'S OPINIONS ON UML by Carl A. Argila Falling over an abstraction;
a dark instance of the class
BARRIERS TO UML ADOPTION by Anthony I. Wasserman

Methodologists and developers of modeling tools have been following closely the development of the Unified Modeling Language (UML).

UML: THE POSITIVE SPIN by Bertrand Meyer From: Candide Smith, OO-101 student
To: Professor Severa Stern
Subject: My request for a grade change
YES! GIVE ME A DEATH MARCH! by Rick Zahniser

Showstopper! [2] describes the death march toward the first release of Windows NT. Many of those marchers wound up rich! I've been on four large and small death marches.