Great article. I also looked at some of the other articles he has written.
By the way, I would like to pass on a very interesting speech by Fred Brooks: http://terra.cs.nps.navy.mil/DistanceEducation/online.siggraph.org/2001/Spec ialSessions/2000TuringLecture-DesignOfDesign/session.html He was made famous by his book "The Mythical Man-month". I found his observations fascinating since I was lamenting the use of the rigids design methodologies that his speech so eloquently exposes as flawed. Two very interesting points are: - "We don't really know the goal at first..." - "The desiderata and their weightings keep changing..." The point is that complex design is more often evolutionary and involves a lot of discovery. The old style rigid approach where the "requirements" are documented, delivered to the programming team who then takes months (or years) to finally deliver to the end user a result which is usually inadequate and needs several more evolutions to make it right. The point of this ranting is to suggest that for many systems the co-evolution model or the Cathedral and Bazaar model is more appropriate. I can't see how you can do this and send programming off-shore with the distance and cultural barriers. Unfortunately this argument is often lost on many who do not understand the flaws and limitations of the old style development process for complex system development as opposed to refinement or improvement of an existing system. Ray -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michael Silverstein Sent: Thursday, January 01, 2004 6:02 PM To: 'Research Triangle Java User's Group mailing list.' Subject: [Juglist] Article: The Changing Face of Offshore Programming Related to a recent thread: http://www.businessweek.com/smallbiz/content/dec2003/sb20031231_3576.htm ----------------------------- Mike Silverstein SilverMark, Inc. The Object Testing Company www.silvermark.com ********************************** * Providers of the "Test Mentor" * * family of testing tools * ********************************** --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.545 / Virus Database: 339 - Release Date: 11/27/2003 _______________________________________________ Juglist mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://trijug.org/mailman/listinfo/juglist_trijug.org _______________________________________________ Juglist mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://trijug.org/mailman/listinfo/juglist_trijug.org
