years, suffering from melancholia for the last one month, living with her father lately, for three days removed to the husband's place. On the morning of the 9th February 1903 she was found hanging from the branch of a tree near the house by the mother-in-law, whose screams drew the attention of a male member of the house, who came up quickly and cut the rope and brought down the body. From the...

OBJECTIVE To determine whether antihypertensive medication adherence could improve using a Meducation® technology health literacy intervention. METHODS We conducted a six-month feasibility study among patients with cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors receiving care from hospital-based primary care clinics. All patients received a personalized Meducation® calendar listing CVD-related med...

This paper discusses Brooks’ The Mythical Man-Month, a landmark work in the software project management field, and compares the software project management advice given there with practices employed some 25 years later. To find out the state of today’s practice 20 experienced software developers were interviewed regarding their impressions of factors leading to success or failure of software de...

Computer A nalysts frequently describe troubled projects with the tar pit metaphor used so effectively in Fred Brooks’s The Mythical Man-Month (2nd ed., AddisonWesley, Reading, Mass., 1995). We have found a similarly effective metaphor: Think of a troubled software project as an insect caught in a spiderweb of sticky constraints, trying desperately to break free before the spider arrives to feed.

In Situational Method Engineering, the concepts of both fragment and chunk have been proposed as the atomic element. These are examined here in terms of their conceptual integrity and in terms of how they may be used in method construction, drawing parallels to show that the similarities are more than the differences. The new ISO/IEC 24744 standard metamodel is used as a conceptual framework to...