Rustan Leino and Mike Barnett on Spec#
Rustan Leino and Mike Barnett of Microsoft Research discuss the technology in Spec# and its futures.
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Tracking change and innovation in the enterprise software development community
Posted by Deborah Hartmann on Aug 09, 2006 06:40 PM
In his Cutter Executive Report "An Adaptive Performance Management System", Jim Highsmith quotes Jeremy Hope and Robin Fraser on the subject of traditional budgetting:Budgets have ... been hijacked by a generation of financial engineers that have used them as remote control devices to "manage by the numbers." They have turned budgets into fixed performance contracts that force managers at all levels to commit to delivering specified financial outcomes, even though many of the variables underpinning those outcomes are beyond their control.Highsmith, Director of Cutter Consortium's Agile Project Management practice, identifies three measurement ideas critical to creating an adaptive organization, and then goes on to propose an alternative system for measuring performance:
-- Beyond Budgeting: How Managers Can Break Free from the Annual Performance Trap
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