Software Engineering: An Idea Whose Time Has Come and Gone?

Tom De Marco

Certain principles long considered fundamental to software engineering are examined and found wanting.

(keywords) Software Engineering, Metrics, Control, Project Management, Budget and Schedule

IEEE Software 26(4), pages 96, 95, July/August 2009, IEEE Computer Society, Los Alamitos, CA, USA

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