DocumentCode
1392120
Title
Plans, lies, and videotape
Author
Bach, James ; Smith, Dave W.
Author_Institution
SmartPatents, 1975 Landrings Dr., Mountain View, CA 94043
Volume
31
Issue
6
fYear
1998
fDate
6/1/1998 12:00:00 AM
Firstpage
107
Lastpage
109
Abstract
The authors pose the question: why are smart, skilled, responsible, experienced software people so often mixed up about commitments? They make a list of reasons for why otherwise capable, well intentioned people appear not to meet their commitments: no commitment in the first place; conditional commitments, with conditions unmet; commitment to work toward a goal, rather than achieve it; different impressions of the true commitment; commitments made under duress; commitment made in error; commitments not worth the effort to fulfill; terms of commitment changed midstream
Keywords
human factors; professional aspects; project management; software development management; conditional commitments; duress; experienced software people; well intentioned people; Assembly; Computational modeling; Contracts; Delay; Eyes; Fellows; Logic; Project management; Seminars; Software;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Computer
Publisher
ieee
ISSN
0018-9162
Type
jour
DOI
10.1109/2.683013
Filename
683013
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