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The Future of Textbooks. Part 1: Are textbooks obsolete? | Thoughts on software and systems engineering

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Thoughts on software and systems engineering. The future of textbooks. Part 2: E-textbooks →. February 28, 2011 · 11:51 pm. The Future of Textbooks. Part 1: Are textbooks obsolete? I’ve recently read an interesting article on t he future of the book. Written from a publisher’s perspective and watched an excellent video of Margaret Attwood talking about the future of publishing from an author’s perspective. A short book on the subject. So I believe that textbooks, as coherent accounts of some topic, are n...

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Agile development for government IT systems – beware of the hype | Thoughts on software and systems engineering

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Thoughts on software and systems engineering. Requirements conflicts, governance and complexity. Why I am leaving the IET after 25 years →. September 19, 2012 · 10:58 am. Agile development for government IT systems – beware of the hype. Agile development gets lots of hype. Governments around the world are saying that we must be agile and use agile practices for IT systems development. Whatever the question, ‘agile’ is the answer. 3 As those involved in the system governance are often not actually users o...

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Why I am leaving the IET after 25 years | Thoughts on software and systems engineering

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Thoughts on software and systems engineering. Agile development for government IT systems – beware of the hype. October 8, 2012 · 8:33 pm. Why I am leaving the IET after 25 years. I am moving to a new blog but will link posts from here for a while. All posts from here have been imported to it. My latest entry – IET discriminates against students from Scotland in its scholarship scheme. Filed under CS education. Agile development for government IT systems – beware of the hype. Leave a Reply Cancel reply.

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Thoughts on software and systems engineering | and other computer-sciencey stuff | Page 2

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Thoughts on software and systems engineering. Newer posts →. July 10, 2012 · 12:59 pm. Personal responsibility and research funding. I was recently asked to review a research proposal where the proposer, who I know and respect, is past the ‘normal’ retirement age. He has a distinguished track record of research and the work proposed was very good. It was a high quality proposal and I supported it. The best way to do this, of course, would be for research funders to make a policy decision that no-one over...

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Getting back to the sharp end | Thoughts on software and systems engineering

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Thoughts on software and systems engineering. Is it possible to validate LSCITS research? Would you prefer simplicity or democracy? August 7, 2012 · 7:45 pm. Getting back to the sharp end. Luckily, this has come up at a time when I’ve just finished a major job and hadn’t yet started anything else so I will be able to give it some time. We have a group of motivated and enthusiastic teachers involved and at least one very articulate student user. This is a major challenge but I’m ...2 responses to “. Septe...

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Requirements conflicts, governance and complexity | Thoughts on software and systems engineering

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Thoughts on software and systems engineering. Would you prefer simplicity or democracy? Agile development for government IT systems – beware of the hype →. September 4, 2012 · 12:44 pm. Requirements conflicts, governance and complexity. I wrote in a paper recently published in the CACM ( copy here. In Scotland, funding for age 5-18 education is the responsibility of local government – and there are 32 local authorities across the country. The national government provides support services (such ...A conse...

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Would you prefer simplicity or democracy? | Thoughts on software and systems engineering

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Thoughts on software and systems engineering. Getting back to the sharp end. Requirements conflicts, governance and complexity →. September 1, 2012 · 6:27 pm. Would you prefer simplicity or democracy? I was inspired by a couple of tweets I saw recently from @CompSciFact to write this. Computer scientists for many years have made a plea for simplicity. Throughout the years, there have been similar statements, with computer scientists telling the world that the answer was to simplify. And, do you know what?