The Voice of the DBA Grown Up Software

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Jun 21, 2009 Grown Up Software

The problems and failings of software development are the topic of so many essays, articles, and discussions all around the Internet. When I was in college, the failure rate of software projects was over 80%, and it seems that recently I've seen "success" rates reported in the 30-40% range. There's a nice write up at CodingHorror If you want to read it.

One of the very few success stories I'd seen back in college was from NASA, that often criticized group for various failures. The group that writes the software for the US Space Shuttle was put forth as a model of software development, earning a CMM level 5 from the Software Engineering Institute. I was reminded of this recently with an article in FastCompany magazine called They Write the Right Stuff.

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