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Summary: He shouldn't have changed his mind.
Review: Although I haven't yet finished this book I can't help but feel that he was closer to the mark with his first book. In the last three years many foreign countries have been ramping up the amount of software development they do for American (and European) clients. Local software developers cannot compete on cost, so they must compete either on innovation or quality. They're not making it on quality and innovations can only take you so far.
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Summary: He shouldn't have changed his mind.
Review: Although I haven't yet finished this book I can't help but feel that he was closer to the mark with his first book. In the last three years many foreign countries have been ramping up the amount of software development they do for American (and European) clients. Local software developers cannot compete on cost, so they must compete either on innovation or quality. They're not making it on quality and innovations can only take you so far.
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Summary: Outdated and almost completely wrong
Review: I had to buy this for my CASE tool class. First of all, Yourdon's reliance on "models" to illustate his concepts is ridiculous. The Maturity model, the SEI model...its all useless.If people in the IT industry tried to follow these models, they would end up "dead and destroyed." This book is boring, as well. It is his attempt at redeeming himself after his first book. I could go on and on...
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Summary: Outdated and almost completely wrong
Review: I had to buy this for my CASE tool class. First of all, Yourdon's reliance on "models" to illustate his concepts is ridiculous. The Maturity model, the SEI model...its all useless. If people in the IT industry tried to follow these models, they would end up "dead and destroyed." This book is boring, as well. It is his attempt at redeeming himself after his first book. I could go on and on...
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Summary: Outdated and almost completely wrong
Review: I have read this book three years ago when I was a programming consultant. It is amazing to see the parallel between Yourdon's thoughts in the book and the current Software Engineering Institute CMM methodology. It is as if the whole new methodology was based on this book! This book definitely reads better than SEI's documentation. You can finish the book in a couple of days and retain the mahority of the ideas presented. If you are a programming supervisor, IT manager, or an enthusiastic software engineer, this book is fun, captivating, and very motivational.
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Summary: Must read for programming and consulting managers
Review: I have read this book three years ago when I was a programming consultant. It is amazing to see the parallel between Yourdon's thoughts in the book and the current Software Engineering Institute CMM methodology. It is as if the whole new methodology was based on this book! This book definitely reads better than SEI's documentation. You can finish the book in a couple of days and retain the mahority of the ideas presented. If you are a programming supervisor, IT manager, or an enthusiastic software engineer, this book is fun, captivating, and very motivational.
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Summary: Very disappointing
Review: I just graduated with a degree in History, but have been entertaining the idea of getting involved in computers in some fashion. The only problem is that I have no background at all and have little Idea where to start. I picked up Rise and Resurrection hoping to get some sort of direction. Yourdon's book is wonderfully written and very understandable. He does a great job of explaining the opportunities available in the computer world, and presents his take on burgeoning technologies and tools. I would recommend this book to anyone in the computer field, interested in getting into the computer field, or simply with an interest in computers.
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Summary: An extremely well written that I found very accessible.
Review: I just graduated with a degree in History, but have been entertaining the idea of getting involved in computers in some fashion. The only problem is that I have no background at all and have little Idea where to start. I picked up Rise and Resurrection hoping to get some sort of direction. Yourdon's book is wonderfully written and very understandable. He does a great job of explaining the opportunities available in the computer world, and presents his take on burgeoning technologies and tools. I would recommend this book to anyone in the computer field, interested in getting into the computer field, or simply with an interest in computers.
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Summary: Almost a rebuttal of Yourdon's 1992 "Decline and Fall."
Review: In 1992, Ed Yourdon nearly had me convinced that code from Bangalore (India) was about to be as dominant as VCR's from Tokyo. Just a few years later, he feels better, and so do I.
What changed? Many things. Today, in the consumer software market, we've learned to accept "Good Enough" Software. "Good Enough" Software depends on a considered tradeoff among schedule (delivery date), functionality (feature richness), and quality (absence of defects). Quality no longer means flawlessness, except in nuclear reactors and pacemakers. This tradeoff is well-suited to the "cowboy" culture that has long been the bane of American programming - and perhaps less suited to top-down, authoritarian cultures. Hence the balance shifts back to our own shores.
Yourdon makes several other equally thought-provoking points about the brightening future for American software professionals. Visit his Website at (http://www.acm.org/~yourdon/) for an update on his philosophy, and then go and get this book!
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Summary: The future of computer science seen by a great man
Review: It gives a lot of guidelines about how to improve projects and human management (American and European point of view), developer behaviors, and so on. I found chapters concerning object technology, analysis and design very realistics, pinpointing advantages, drawbacks, and advice. Very good and clear Java's strategic position overview as programming language, web-based language ( client and server ), and so on. Unfortunately, I expected more details about Inernet technology ( e-commerce, ethic, ...). A very good book to read as a novel.
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