Mortality Play.

The article discusses the author's experiences as he audited the development of internal software used by a large corporation. The author used information about the project's plans, its current progress, and potential roadblocks on the development path to analyze whether it was a feasible design. Th...

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Published in:Communications of the ACM Vol. 50; no. 3; pp. 15 - 19
Main Author: Armour, Phillip G.
Format: Article
Published: Association for Computing Machinery Mar2007
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