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Re:Software Engineering: An idea whose time has come and gone? by wglb on Friday July 17, 2009 @01:39PM (#710348)
This is an excellent article. I am not familiar in detail with DeMarco's work, but it is very refreshing to hear a pundit/consultant/authority say "I am uncomfortable with what I said before" after having learned from experience or history.

He offers an excellent example of project characterization: "a $1m project with expected value of $1.1m vs $1m project with expected value of $50m".

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Re:Software Engineering: An idea whose time has come and gone? by silentbicycle on Friday July 17, 2009 @03:03PM (#710523)
DeMarco and Lister's _Peopleware_ is excellent, IMHO.
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