RE: [AM] Article of Interest in CIO Magazine

I think possibly Hubert was referring to "systems as opposed to software",
in the sense that the code we write is just a small part of the overall
solution to a business problem. In the end - if we're lucky - people use our
code to do *stuff*, and that *stuff* is more important than the code we
wrote that they use to do it :-)
 
Jason


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From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: 08 March 2004 21:45
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [AM] Article of Interest in CIO Magazine


In a message dated 3/8/2004 1:23:47 PM Pacific Standard Time,
[email protected] writes:

The field that considers such tradeoffs is
called systems engineering and is not widely enough studied or
applied.

Hubert:
 
I have spent most of my career trying to make this point. Too often, systems
are built under too much pressure to "deliver the goods" as rapidly as
possible, using a process that will not support that sort of effort. If this
is to be the way software is built, some effort must be put into finding a
design (i.e., engineering  a system) that minimizes the difficulties in
achieving reasonable maintainability and sustainability. 
 
Regards,
 
Pete 
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