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Change Management Strategies for Safety-Critical Software - Stephenson, Buttle, McDermid (Correct)
....is known. Defer Volatile Decisions Once it is possible to reorder the introduction of decisions into a software development, it becomes useful to determine that order. Work in this area has already shown that there are benefits from the ability to defer certain kinds of commitment during design [9]. One feature of a decision that can be used to determine its place in such an order is its volatility. A decision is more volatile if it is more likely to undergo change. Conversely, a decision is more stable if it is less likely to undergo change. The volatility of a particular decision is ....
Harold Thimbleby. Delaying Commitment. IEEE Software, 5(3):78--86, May 1988.
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....party interfere with those of another. Conflicts do not necessarily need to be resolved, but where they are, the possible resolution methods range from the co operative to the non cooperative. The key to allowing multiple viewpoints to co exist is to delay making a commitment to any one of them [Thimbleby 1988]. If one viewpoint or a particular combination of viewpoints is adopted as the primary one, and the specification based on that viewpoint, other useful viewpoints become neglected. A decision has been made (however subconsciously) and a commitment made to the chosen viewpoint. Such a commitment ....
....These commitments inevitably involve a narrowing of attention, as the act of making the decision implies that there are other possibilities which will henceforth be excluded from consideration. A premature decision implies a commitment which may unnecessarily restrict the future development [Thimbleby 1988]. Most importantly, it can curtail the creativity process by discouraging exploration of novel ideas. Not only are other possibilities excluded from consideration, but the participants often forget they exist. Hence, while it is sometimes possible to reverse decisions if it becomes clear they are ....
Thimbleby, H. W., 1988, "Delaying Commitments", IEEE Software, May 1988.
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Thimbleby, H. W., 1988, "Delaying Commitment," IEEE Software, 5(3), pp. 78--86.
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....design, a much smaller domain and one where there can be more hope. Here, there is usually just one responsible designer, or a small common minded team, working with explicit utility functions (Ehn, 1988) The technology of interactive systems itself supports rational and experimental design (Thimbleby, 1988), and there are methods to improve designs, from practical (Gould Lewis, 1985) to macro theoretical (Moser, 1990) and micro theoretical (Dix, 1991) Designers work under heavy constraints, and part of the problem is that they have to solve problems from the current position. One might instead ....
THIMBLEBY, H. W. 1988, "Delaying Commitment," IEEE Software, 5(3), pp78--86.
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H. Thimbleby. Delaying commitment. IEEE Software, 5(3):78--86, May/June 1988.
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