Every once in a while, a technical periodical publishes something that readers cut out and pin to the office bulletin board. I suspect that Tom DeMarco’s comments may warrant the mutilation of this issue.
This column is excerpted from Tom’s new book, Why Does Software Cost So Much? (and Other Puzzles of the Information Age), ©1995 by Tom DeMarco, published by Dorset House. The book consists of 24 essays: 14 reprints (several of which first appeared in IEEE Software) and 10 new essays.
—Roger Pressman