Black Box , State Box , and Clear Box Concepts
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M a y / J u n e 2 0 0 0 I E E E S O F T W A R E 71 This was the situation in a company I worked for some years ago: people were whispering in the corners, discussing explanations and scapegoats—half-hearted attempts to put out the fire. We were rapidly losing money and self-respect, until one manager stepped forward and admitted: “This piece of software is fatal for us. We must completely rebuild it—whatever it takes.” The developers in the trenches (I was one of them) were overwhelmed by management’s sudden resolution. Thus begins my story about the reengineering of a catastrophic software product, a product that caused so much damage that change was the paradigm and “doing it the old way” became the exception.
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