MIT study on software development processes

["Kenneth R. van Wyk" <Ken () KRvW com>]

Hi all,

I just saw a Slashdot story 
(http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/04/30/1421223&mode=thread&tid=126&tid=156&tid=185) 
announcing an MIT study on software development processes used around the 
world.  The report itself can be found at 
http://ebusiness.mit.edu/research/papers/178_Cusumano_Intl_Comp.pdf

I haven't read through the whole thing, but the slashdot entry indicates that 
the study found some interesting things, in particular the low use of 
specification documents in the design cycle.  Although it doesn't seem to 
address security per se, I thought that SC-L readers might find it an 
interesting read nonetheless.

Cheers,

Ken
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