When Good Enough Software Is Best

  • Authors:
  • Edward Yourdon

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Software
  • Year:
  • 1995

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Abstract

There驴s a sign that my printer displays prominently on his wall. 驴You can getit fast; you can have it cheap; you can get it right. Pick two!驴 That samesign could be displayed on the wall of every software驴development organization.And yet most of our customers want all three. Ed Yourdon tackles that dilemmain this issue驴s column. He contends that we don驴t rationally establish properbalance among the critical project parameters: cost, schedule, staffing,functionality, and quality. Our customers want us to optimize all theseparameters, even when this is clearly impossible. The purists among you mayfind Ed驴s comments grating. But I suspect that those of you who驴ve been bloodied in the project wars will find wisdom in his words. 驴 Roger Pressman