Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sdd.hp.com!decwrl!ads.com!saturn!jgautier From: jgautier@deimos.ads.com (Jorge Gautier) Newsgroups: comp.software-eng Subject: Re: CASE, the Little Red Hen, and Stone Soup Message-ID: Date: 15 Aug 90 20:13:17 GMT References: <28596@athertn.Atherton.COM> Sender: usenet@ads.com (USENET News) Organization: Advanced Decision Systems, Mountain View, CA 94043, +1 (415) 960-7300 Lines: 31 In-Reply-To: mcgregor@hemlock.Atherton.COM's message of 10 Aug 90 18:25:17 GMT In article <28596@athertn.Atherton.COM> mcgregor@hemlock.Atherton.COM (Scott McGregor) writes: > I am concerned about where our industry is going, or rather where it isn't. > I am afraid that we are creating lots of capabilities and possibilities and > few realities and actualities. I am afraid that there will be a backlash > against what we have done by people who seek for solutions, hear that > CASE has the answer, look past the possibilities in search of the solutions > and disappointed turn away, only to criticize the industry as having > inflated claims. Anyone who thinks "CASE" is one tool or methodology is being hopelessly naive. The backlash should be against the specific companies that are selling useless products. > I am afraid that this is the situation for all too many software development > managers out there. They have too much to worry about to have time to > spend on figuring out what they want. Those people then deserve what they get and will get what they deserve. > For many CASE products it is much the same, I think. The real value > is not in the product, but in the ingredients provided by the customer > themselves in their customization, self-examinations and preparation > for use of the new system. The CASE product is merely the catalyst. If that's how customers want to spend their money, let them. But if I were a supplier of that kind of product, I would be wondering about what I'll be selling to them after they wise up. -- Jorge A. Gautier| "The enemy is at the gate. And the enemy is the human mind jgautier@ads.com| itself--or lack of it--on this planet." -General Boy