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  1. Is IBM changing ?

    I never thought I’d see a post from IBM/Rational that stated that “more process” is not always a good thing. Especially since they have been pushing Rational Unified Process so strong. But, here it is:“Anti-patterns: Precise plans/estimates, track against static plan management style. More process is better. Always use the same degree of process throughout …

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  2. Old-School development methodologies

    The Software Development industry is in it’s adolescence The software industry is fairly young, the first Personal Computer together with the Operating System that made it wide-spread (MSDOS) was only available in 1981 [1]. Since then the industry has evolved very, very fast which allowed many “snake oil” sales men to take it over (I …

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