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From: daves@hpopd.pwd.hp.com (Dave Straker)
Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
Subject: Re: analogies with film production
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Date: 16 May 91 16:55:55 GMT
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>      Is film making really a model which software developers want to emulate?
>Consider the current state of commercial film making:  most of what studios
>and independents put out is not successful.  No team or individual film maker
>has an unbroken string of commercial successes.  The criteria for a 
>successful film are unclear ( entertaining, money-making, innovative, great 
>acting, important story) and even when criteria might be agreed upon, the 
>customers generally disagree on how well a particular film meets those criteria.
>There are even people who are bored by Casablanca or Citizen Kane and neither
>actually made a lot of money.

Sounds like a really good analogy!

:-)  :-)

Dave Straker            Pinewood Information Systems Division (PWD not PISD)
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