After 60-plus years, it's high time our industry matured into an engineering discipline. By now generic, adaptable design models should have emerged and stood the test of time to become industry-wide standards. Such models would entail the automation of most manual -- and hence error-prone -- aspects of software construction, fine-tuning, and evolution.
Engineering: YES; Craft: NO
Posted March 31, 2010 | Leadership |
About The Author
Ken Orr was a Fellow of the Cutter Business Technology Council and a Senior Consultant with Cutter Consortium's Data Analytics & Digital Technologies, Business Technology & Digital Transformation Strategies, and Business & Enterprise Architecture practices. He was also a regular speaker at Cutter Summits and symposia.
Mr. Orr was an internationally recognized expert on enterprise architecture, data warehousing, knowledge management… Read More
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