Rethinking Goals Of Software Projects
Tom DeMarco, from his recent article in IEEE Software, says we should rethink the goal of a software project.
For the past 40 years, for example, we’ve tortured ourselves over our inability to finish a software project on time and on budget. But as I hinted earlier, this never should have been the supreme goal. The more important goal is transformation, creating software that changes the world or that transforms a company or how it does business.
Is software engineering, which weights controls over software projects, outdated? Really? The article is too short to strenghten his sensational arguments. However, software developement may become boring and dry as we focus more on a defined process or metrics.
