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From: rion@wdl1.UUCP (Rion Cassidy)
Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
Subject: Re: Looking for references to saving money and time
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Date: 10 Dec 87 21:31:24 GMT
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Here in the bay area we have a mass trasit system called BART (Bay
Area Rapid Transit), probably you've heard of it.  Yesterday I heard
on the news that a new computer control system for BART was five years
behind schedule and $25 million over budget.   While I have no idea of
who is doing this work and what methods they have employed, I think
that this should serve as an example that there are large software
projects currently under progress out there that need help, and
software engineering (of some sort) could easily be that help.

A couple of months ago I went a seminar put on by a local ACM chapter.
The speaker was Tom Gilb, and from the course material I have found
what I believe some of the more significant references.

M. E. Fagan, "Design and Code Inspection to reduce errors in program
development" IBM systems Journal, 15, No. 3, 1976.

Mills,Hardin,Dyer,Michael,Quinnan: Articles on Evolutionary Delivery,
IBM Systems Journal, No. 4, 1980.

Wong Carolyn, "A Successful Software Development", IEEE Transactions
of Software Engineering, Nov. 1984.

Gilb, Tom,"Software Engineering using Design by Objectives", ACM
Software Engineering Notes, April 1984, pp.104-113.


Rion Cassidy 
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