Reading Is Fundamental (To Forming An Educated Opinion)

Slashdot and reading :)

Girish Bharadwaj — Tue, 17 Aug 2004 13:05:00 GMT

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Chris H — Tue, 17 Aug 2004 10:39:00 GMT

"this thread on Slashdot, where most of the posts were from people who don't appear to have read the article at all"

As a little challenge, try to find a thread on Slashdot where most of the posts are from people who have read the article.

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John Bullock — Tue, 17 Aug 2004 15:02:00 GMT

Wow, I'm always astounding by peoples ignorance. You would think I would be used to it by now. I thought Greenfield's article was excellent. I think we can and must get to the point of software factories especially considering the ever shortening deadlines and rallying cries for increased quality. If we keep rebuilding from scratch, which I know we do for the most part still at my firm :(, we will never realize either of these goals. Too bad people just don't get it!

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Val V — Fri, 27 Aug 2004 16:21:00 GMT

The article on software factories is excellent. I think though the "factory" part of the name is confusing some people (that read just the title anyway). It is in fact a higher level of abstraction and, as long as it preserves the generality, a good idea. I am going to buy the book.

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Larry Fitzpatrick — Fri, 27 Aug 2004 19:42:00 GMT

I agree, I thought Jack's article was more than excellent, it was brilliant (I did rate it highly). There were certainly points that I would (or would want Jack to) elaborate upon:

- future of IT may look more like finance than manufacturing (where are those hoards of accountants, anyway? can you see 'programmer' parallels?)

- an understanding/explanation of the drivers behind "the revolution" would be interesting. Today, <= 20% of an IT project is buried in actual CODE DEVELOPMENT and if you look at the life cycle costs (add operational costs), it drops even further. So where does all the _other_ money/time go? And if optimizing the programming part only gets you a single-digit improvement in productivity, who cares?

- (imho) too little attention is paid to the so-called non-functional aspects of solution development; both within the solution development life cycle, and within the reuse community. But, THAT's where most of the money goes.

Power on, Jack.
Fitz

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