Tom DeMarco has an opinion piece in IEEE Software titled, Software Engineering: An Idea Whose Time Has Come and Gone? He conjectures that 40 years after the NATO Conference on Software Engineering where software engineering was first proposed, DeMarco wonders if the metrics proposed during that period are still relevant?... 

I just had a fascinating conversation with an affluent 39-year-old mother of two in Western Maryland who began shopping regularly at Wal-Mart in January, after years of avoiding the giant discounter. “I was a snob,” she says. But a New Year’s resolution to spend less money made her switch from her... 

Craig Brown (one of my favorite Blogs) posted a piece about the use of Milestones. Actually it was a comment from Eugenio regarding measuring small increments. Here in the defense world we work very hard to NOT have milestones in the way discussed in the post. Are are the reasons: A milestone is essentially a rock...