The Woe's of the Computer System Manager

Abstract

The software has been designed, coded, and entered into the computer -- now comes the big task of verification and validation. This paper develops several system approaches, technical evaluation criteria, and key milestones for managing the progress, technical excellence and completion of this process. This is the phase of software development that becomes very difficult if a good design and design review has not been performed. In short, a well intentioned capability now becomes a "fair" design with patches installed to make it work. It is the number and type of patches to make it work that causes the software package to rapidly get out of hand. These problems will be discussed.