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- Subject: CFP: Lesson Learned and Observed in Software Development
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- >>>>>>>>>>>>>> IEEE Software <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
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- CALL FOR ARTICLES ON LESSONS LEARNED AND OBSERVED IN SOFTWARE
- DEVELOPMENT
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- "Admitting mistakes is a sign of great strength and wisdom."
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- IEEE Software seeks articles for a special issue that will highlight
- the lessons learned and observed in the development of large software
- systems in the last 10 years. This unique issue will appear in
- September 1993.
-
- A programmer passed over for promotion complains: "But I have 15 years
- experience and you promoted someone with only 10 years experience."
- The manager answers, "No, you havefive years experience -- repeated
- three times."
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- Is the software profession like this programmer? A prerequisite to
- learning is the ability to admit mistakes. We mustshare with each
- other not only our successes but also our failures. In doing so, we
- will help the software-engineering profession mature.
- Fred Brooks' Mythical Man-Month, the classic lessons learned/observed
- publication, is the model for this special issue. Many of the lessons
- related by Brooks are derived from what we call failures. Yet it is
- through this kind of honest admission that others learn to avoid the
- same mistakes.
- The purpose of this special issue is to aid technology transfer. We do
- not seek untested ideas or tools. Wewill focus on the practical
- experiences observed or learned on real projects. Positive and
- negative reports are welcome. Case studies and experience reports are
- particularly welcome.
-
- Since the term "software engineering" was coined in 1968, some
- overlapping categories have evolved to emcompass the profession. We
- seek reports from these areas:
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- -- Management: project planning, cost estimation, scheduling,
- monitoring and control.
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- -- Techniques: specific ways, like structured programming, to
- accomplish a task.
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- -- Methodologies: including structured analysis and design and object
- orientation.
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- -- Process: development, definition, automation, evaluation, and
- modification.
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- -- Configuration management: systematic ways to keep all the artifacts
- in order for easy and safe access and change.
-
- -- Maintenance: including reverse engineering and reengineering.
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- Submission deadline is December 31, 1992
-
- Pei Hsia
- Computer Science Engineering Dept.
- University of Texas
- PO Box 19015
- Arlington, TX 76019-0015
- Internet hsia@cse.uta.edu
- Fax (817) 273-2548
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- For Federal Express, please use the following address:
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- CSE Department
- College of Engineering
- 416 Yates Street
- Arlington, Texas 76019
- (817) 273-3785
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