Change is Imperative:
Wasserman's 7 Factors Driving Change
nCriticality of time to market
nShift in computing economics
nPowerful desktop computers
nExtensive networks and the Web
nGrowing availability of object technology
nWIMP (windows, icons, menus, pointers)
nUnpredictability of the waterfall model of software development
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n Tony Wasserman. Toward a Discipline of Software Engineering. IEEE Software 13:6:23-31, Nov 1996.
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