Review of"The industrial engineer and the data center by Volpel, John H." in Proc. AIIE 1974 Spring Annual Conf. (25th Annual Conf. and Convention, New Orleans, Louisiana, May 22-24, 1974), American Inst. of Industrial Engineers, Inc., Norcross, Georgia, 1974, 36-40
Theodore C. Willoughby · ACM SIGCPR Computer Personnel · 1978
Missed deadlines and unsatisfactory first release systems continue to plague software developers after more than 20 years of experience. Increased availability of trained staff and the advent of adequate generative systems to produce known software items like language processors, etc., automatically have not, apparently, contributed to solving the problem. The orientation of this paper is that software planning remains an unknown skill for technical/administration groups. It points out three common errors in the way planning is generally carried out and relates planning failures to these fundamental errors.