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Computing's Paradigm
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Trying to categorize computing as engineering, science, or math is fruitless; we have our own paradigm.
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(1)Undoubtly, the core aspects are very technical, but computing is also very much about social and interactional aspects. Any IT project implies a great number of challenges and more often than not these challenges must be divided among project members. The way these tasks are defined, distributed, executed and reported (for further coordination of the outstanding project tasks) has a significant impact on the result. For example, consider a software project that is created according to the Secure Development Lifecycle; a similar project developed using an agile software methodology will inadvertedly result in a vastly different software product.
These non-technical aspects are very dominant in large IT projects. More often than not, these non-technical aspects have a greater impact on the success or failure of a given project than the concrete technical challenges. I would have loved to have seen these aspects addressed in this article.
Yours,
Juergen Pabel
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