2017-05-18

GOTO 2015 - Progress Toward an Engineering Discipline of Software - Mary Shaw

My notes on GOTO 2015 - Progress Toward an Engineering Discipline of Software - Mary Shaw



Notes

17:28 past the bridges and into software engineering

Software Engineering is all design. Production used to be printing the CDs, and nowadays it is hitting the "deploy" button.

"scaling the costs to the consequences" -- the point is not to minimize the cost, the point is to scale it to the consequences.  Risks must be taken, and if the potential gains are huge, then the risks can be correspondingly large.


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