The Profession of IT Evolutionary System Development.

The article discusses critical large systems projects, examining the reasons behind the success or failure of such endeavors and exploring how to do them better. Examples of such projects are provided including the failure of the replacement FAA (U.S. Federal Aviation Administration) air traffic con...

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Publicado en:	Communications of the ACM Vol. 51; no. 12; pp. 29 - 32
Autores principales:	Denning, Peter J., Gunderson, Chris, Hayes-Roth, Rick
Formato:	Artículo
Publicado:	Association for Computing Machinery Dec2008
Materias:	Systems development Information technology Boeing 777 (Jet transport) Computer science Computer architecture United States
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Sumario:	The article discusses critical large systems projects, examining the reasons behind the success or failure of such endeavors and exploring how to do them better. Examples of such projects are provided including the failure of the replacement FAA (U.S. Federal Aviation Administration) air traffic control system to deliver the functions needed and the success of the Boeing 777 aircraft. Also discussed is the importance for development time to be shorter than environmental change time and evolutionary creation of the Internet.