{"id":219,"date":"2009-07-19T15:32:01","date_gmt":"2009-07-19T23:32:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/netmesh.info\/jernst\/uncategorized\/tom-demarco-software-engineerings-time-has-come-and-gone"},"modified":"2009-07-19T15:32:01","modified_gmt":"2009-07-19T23:32:01","slug":"tom-demarco-software-engineerings-time-has-come-and-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/tom-demarco-software-engineerings-time-has-come-and-gone\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom DeMarco: Software Engineering&#8217;s Time Has Come and Gone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Imagine the pope declaring that perhaps god doesn&#8217;t exist.<\/p>\n<p>Tom DeMarco just published a short, but equally shocking <a href=\"http:\/\/www2.computer.org\/cms\/Computer.org\/ComputingNow\/homepage\/2009\/0709\/rW_SO_Viewpoints.pdf\">article<\/a> in IEEE Software. Recall he&#8217;s as much as the pope of software engineering as one can imagine, having authored influential works such as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Peopleware-Productive-Projects-Teams-Second\/dp\/0932633439\">Peopleware<\/a> and influenced virtually any methodologist and software architect since. His article culminates in:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m gradually coming to the conclusion that software engineering is an idea whose time has come and gone.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Unfortunately, I have to agree, and I came up pretty much the same tradition culminating in my involvement in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uml.org\/\">UML<\/a> back in the days.<\/p>\n<p>Go read the <a href=\"http:\/\/www2.computer.org\/cms\/Computer.org\/ComputingNow\/homepage\/2009\/0709\/rW_SO_Viewpoints.pdf\">article<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imagine the pope declaring that perhaps god doesn&#8217;t exist. Tom DeMarco just published a short, but equally shocking article in IEEE Software. Recall he&#8217;s as much as the pope of software engineering as one can imagine, having authored influential works such as Peopleware and influenced virtually any methodologist and software architect since. His article culminates&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"webmentions_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","kind-"],"kind":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}