Finally, the talk briefly reviews the TSP introduction strategy and approach. It seems that everyone who wishes to make a mark in the software world feels the need to invent a new model or methodology. Such models provide useful frameworks for structuring our thinking and practices in various subdomains of software development and management. However, I contend that we don t need any more new, improved models for software engineering at the moment. The problem is not inadequate models.
Some software projects fails spectacularly.
In this talk, the speaker will discuss two of them - the debacle of the Denver airport baggage handling system, and the wreckage of the Westpac Bank information system in Australia. The talk will focus on an insider s view of the two projects, as retold from the speaker s book Software Runaways, but will add some fresh and recent insights into what really went wrong. Other software projects struggle mightily before succeeding. The speaker will conclude by discussing one of those, a project more representative of what really happens in industry projects. Terrible schedule pressures nearly scuttle the project before the organization in question is able to turn things around.