Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!ukc!strath-cs!cs.glasgow.ac.uk!bru-cc!cs86eew From: cs86eew@cc.brunel.ac.uk (Eoin Woods) Newsgroups: comp.software-eng Subject: Re: visual languages Message-ID: <1380@Terra.cc.brunel.ac.uk> Date: 27 Feb 90 17:28:52 GMT References: <98229@linus.UUCP> <11202@encore.Encore.COM> Reply-To: cs86eew@cc.brunel.ac.uk (Eoin Woods) Organization: Brunel University, Uxbridge, UK Lines: 39 In article sdl@lyra.mitre.org (Steven D. Litvinchouk) writes: > >In article <11202@encore.Encore.COM> jkenton@pinocchio.encore.com (Jeff Kenton) writes: > >> About 8 years ago I was >> part of a startup which had a person who had been at Softech. He tried >> to promote SADT, but wound up creating friction and blocking progress in >> many imaginative ways. He left after 9 months without having written a >> single line of code, and a demo scheduled for the board of directors in >> two weeks. >> >> Was it him, or us, or SADT? > >There's an obvious question. How well did things go on the project >*after* this person left? Did the non-use of SADT afterwards produce >demonstrable progress? > Even if there was progress, it does not really refect positively or negatively on the SADT method. Promoting a tool is one thing, blocking a project and making it run late is surely unprofessional in the extreme. It sounds as if the Ex-Softech-ie was getting mixed up between the use of SADT specifically and using good software development method. Presumably you were using a method but they thought it could be done better with SADT. I could have been you, it probably was him but it can;t have been SADT - It can't produce friction - only the human's using it can!! Besides, I think SADT is really quite good ! Eoin. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ | FROM : Eoin Woods Computer Science Department, Brunel University, | | Uxbridge, Middlesex UB8 3PH | | JANET : cs86eew@mercury.cct.brunel.ac.uk | | UUCP : ...ukc!cct.brunel!cs86eew | | ARPA : cs86eew%cct.brunel.ac.uk@cs.ucl |