The following article by Tom DeMarco was orginally published in Cutter Information Corp.'s American Programmer (now Cutter IT Journal) and later included in Mr. DeMarco's book, Why Does Software Cost So Much (and Other Puzzles of the Information Age) (Dorset House, 1995).
Executive Update
Standing Naked in the Snow (Variation on a Theme by Yamaura)
By Tom DeMarco
Posted August 31, 2001 | Leadership |
About The Author
Tom DeMarco is a Cutter Consortium Fellow. He served on the Editorial Board of Cutter IT Journal (now Amplify) for more than 2 decades. Tom has been a frequent keynoter and moderator at Cutter Summits. Mr. DeMarco is a principal of the Atlantic Systems Guild. He was the winner of the 1986 Warnier Prize for "lifetime contribution to the field of computing" and the 1999 Wayne Stevens Prize for "contribution to software methods." His best-selling… Read More
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