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Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
Subject: Re: more on estimation
Summary: Whats a prototype
Keywords: prototype, hardware analogy
Message-ID: <114473@linus.mitre.org>
Date: 24 Jul 90 12:31:51 GMT
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Reply-To: davis@mwunix.mitre.org (David Davis)
Organization: The Mitre Corporation
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less expensive materials, and plan for manufacturing techniques that 
are more efficient and less costly than those we used during prototyping.
The analogy with software breaks down here because software isnt mass-produced.
From: davis@mwunix.mitre.org (David Davis)
Path: mwunix.mitre.org!davis

Two goals that are similar in both hardware and software prototyping are to 
test our ideas and to market a product to our own management or an outside 
customer.  There is an implication in doing software prototyping that 
one of the  reasons for doing a prototype is that we dont really believe 
that if we use a full-fleged life-cycle approach that we can achieve 
success.  That is, implementing a cohesive design that has acceptable 
perfomrance and is delivered in a timely way.


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