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From: diamond@csl.sony.co.jp (Norman Diamond)
Newsgroups: comp.software-eng,comp.edu,misc.jobs.misc
Subject: Re: Information Systems is an Engineering Discipline
Message-ID: <10835@riks.csl.sony.co.jp>
Date: 13 Sep 89 11:20:12 GMT
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Reply-To: diamond@riks. (Norman Diamond)
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Organization: Sony Computer Science Laboratory Inc., Tokyo, Japan
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_Business Week_ writes:

>       Put senior, nontechnical management in charge of the project to
>       help ensure that it is finished on time and within budget.

In article <6429@hubcap.clemson.edu> wtwolfe@hubcap.clemson.edu (Bill Wolfe) writes:

>    Rubbish!  Managing a large information system development project is
>    a professional skill requiring significant technical and engineering
>    background.

Absolutely true.  Business Week's advice results in products that don't
work.  It is important to produce the wrong answer as quickly AND as
cheaply as possible, eh?  This kind of practice is the reason why the
U.S. (and especially Canada) now fall behind industrialized countries'
economies.  (In private industry, people get fired for expressing
Mr. Wolfe's opinion, or mine.)

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