Guest Editor's Introduction Industrial Practices for Process Improvement Luigi Benedicenti Faculty of Engineering University of Regina 3737 Wascana Parkway Regina SK $4S 0A2 CANADA Tel: (306) 585-4701 Luigi.Benedicenti@uregina.ca In 1975, Robert Brooks wrote "'The mythical man-month," a book that intended to summarize the issues in industrial software development at that time. The "failure" o f his m a n a g e m e n t and development efforts to write a functional, reusable, general-purpose operating system for IBM taught h i m m a n y useful lessons, and he wanted to share them with the community. Apparently, very few were listening. Thus it happened that m a n y other industrial software efforts were plagued b y the very same mistakes, and even who listened (like the W i n d o w s N T 3 . 0 development team) m a d e n e w ones. In recent times, the term "technology transfer" has acquired more and more importance. The academic c o m m u n i t y is getting increasingly involved with Industry, as industrial software development becomes more and more difficult, requiring a huge amount o f resources, and
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Industrial practices for process improvement
Benedicenti, Luigi
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, Volume 8 (1)
Association for Computing Machinery – Sep 1, 2000
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