We've often compared the making of products to the making of movies. Both need a business producer (ie., product manager) and an artistic director (ie., product architect or designer). Scott Sehlhorst explores this idea further:
"Alan Cooper presents the analogy that software development is like making movies in his book The Inmates are Running the Asylum. Cooper is presenting the analogy in the context of validating the business case for investing in interaction design. Cooper points out that they've been making movies for a lot longer than we've been making software, and he's exactly right that there is something to learn from the film industry."
Read the full post at Software design and making movies.
CMMI Levels explained
The levels of CMMI came up in a conversation this week. The Software Engineering Institute (SEI) at Carnegie Mellon created the CMM model for software engineering in the late 80's and early 90's. In an effort to consolidate multiple CMM models for different process areas, the SEI team created the Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) in 2002. Read CMMI Levels explained to understand what each level represents.
Posted on March 18, 2006 at 11:10 PM in Industry News & Commentary, Requirements, Working with Development | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)