Re: Work to the risk was Re: Inspections Was: RE: [AM] ANN: Mashing Deadly Myt

At 08:49 AM 2/25/2004, you wrote:

>| From: Scott Ambler<[email protected]>
>|
>| It's the same thing with software.  If I was working on truly critical
>| software where a mistake is costly, perhaps the control software for the
>| Mars Lander or control software for a medical device, then I'd very likely
>| insist on reviews and inspections.  In these situations the risk far
>| outweighs the cost.  In the vast majority of situations this isn't the
>| case, and frankly it makes very little sense to do inspections and reviews
>| when other practices such as pair programming, modeling with others,
>| collective ownership, ... seem to result in very high quality work anyway.
>---
>
>If you're willing to limit your scope to projects where it doesn't
>matter if you deliver defects, then I can agree with you.  I've never
>actually worked in such a domain, but when I write code for my own use
>I wouldn't bother with arranging inspections, I would just fix problems
>when they became too irritating to live with.  My perceptions are
>colored by working with software delivered to customers, with both real
>costs and credibility costs to escaped defects.

I have no doubt that it may be different for delivering software to cell 
phone handsets because you clearly have some update challenges if you get 
it wrong.

However, this often isn't the case with the vast majority of business 
software, you can in fact redeploy it relatively easy if you choose (many 
orgs choose to make this overly complex, but they don't actually need to).

BTW, I have been known to deliver working software to customers.  ;-)

- Scott

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