According to an ancient Middle Eastern story, two nomadic tribes were preparing to go into battle over the right to use a well in the desert.
June 30, 2006 | Authored By: E.M. Bennatan
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Software Teams -- Your Most Important
April 30, 2004 | Authored By: E.M. Bennatan
There is a simple illusion shown in Figure 1. When asked which of the two lines is longer, many people choose line A, while some who have seen a similar example before will say that both lines are the same length. Actually, line B is longer.
March 1, 2005 | Authored By: E.M. Bennatan
A New Era of Software Project
November 30, 2004 | Authored By: E.M. Bennatan
Thomas C. Schelling was awarded the 2005 Nobel Prize in economics, 1 but his most famous work was not strictly in that field; it was in game theory.
July 31, 2006 | Authored By: E.M. Bennatan
Software Teams -- Your Most Important
May 31, 2004 | Authored By: E.M. Bennatan
Give a software team an interesting project and you will have a group of happy campers -- true or false? Well, you might say, interesting projects are fine, but team performance is also influenced by good management and a decent salary. Very few happy campers earn a poor salary.
July 1, 2004 | Authored By: E.M. Bennatan
Measuring Up to Metrics
February 28, 2005 | Authored By: E.M. Bennatan
The Software Modeling Revival
July 31, 2004 | Authored By: E.M. Bennatan
There is an interesting story from the early days of software t
August 31, 2007 | Authored By: E.M. Bennatan
Have you ever watched the reality TV series Survivor?
July 12, 2010 | Authored By: E.M. Bennatan
Yes -- it appears to be true. Companies are satisfied with their strategic choice of distributed software development (DSD).
March 31, 2002 | Authored By: E.M. Bennatan
Yes -- it appears to be true. Companies are satisfied with their strategic choice of distributed software development (DSD).
September 1, 2002 | Authored By: E.M. Bennatan
Ten years ago, I was invited to join a panel of software engineering protagonists at Motorola. At our first meeting with then-CEO George Fisher, we drafted a list of goals for the panel.
May 31, 2001 | Authored By: E.M. Bennatan
PART I: THE "MAKE OR BREAK" OF A PROJECT
How important are development teams to the success of a software project? Does team structure really matter? To a varying degree, most of us believe that it does.
October 1, 2004 | Authored By: E.M. Bennatan
PART I: HOW TO AVOID BEING STRANDED IN THE DESERT
In the 1965 movie The Flight of the Phoenix, a plane crash leaves a small group of survivors stranded in the Sahara desert.
November 1, 2004 | Authored By: E.M. Bennatan
Is There Still a Case for Distributed Software Development? At the dawn of the 21st century, software development is an international activity.
December 31, 2001 | Authored By: E.M. Bennatan