Do We Need a Software Czar?
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software have utterly failed. Instead of developing a body of software that’s getting better and better, he says we’ve been creating programs that are brittle, incomprehensible, and nearly impossible to change. Our e orts to solve this problem with open standards and the free ow of information have been misguided. According to him, we need to ap point a software czar, someone vested with absolute authority to bring some order to the eld. I suspect that Curtiss would like to be that software czar. I also suspect that he’d like me to help him get this position. I acknowledge some of the aws he sees in software, but I’d argue that we need to be more subtle in our leadership of software projects. We need to temper authoritarian leadership with the insights of individual programmers. We start designing software by drawing boxes on a whiteboard that represent di erent system modules, and then we divide our programming
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عنوان ژورنال:
- IEEE Computer
دوره 48 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2015