Solve Problems Using the Military Problem Solving Process

I work with this certain army dude, who always points me to this link whenever I ask him some dumb/confusing question. Though I did not follow them initially, they make a lot of sense and correlate a lot to the software engineering principles. Applied these partially for my current project and I can see good results.

http://www.atsc.army.mil/itsd/comcor/cg1281s.htm

At one point in your life, one has to move from the hacker programming style ( scribble random things ) to s/w development style.

5 Comments

  1. tariquesani · January 4, 2004 Reply

    At one point in your life, one has to move from the hacker programming style ( scribble random things ) to s/w development style.

    Now I remember why my passion for programming went flat…

  2. thaths · January 4, 2004 Reply

    At one point in your life, one has to move from the hacker programming style ( scribble random things ) to s/w development style.

    I believe the technical term for the phenomenon is being kicked upstairs to software/program/project management.

    Thaths

  3. noelladsa · January 4, 2004 Reply

    Hehe Kalyan and me were discussing the same thing , there is no more fun if you can’t do it when you feel hyper about it and you have to do it when you don’t feel hyper(programming for example).Transition from hobby to work may finally result in you losing your joy for that activity.More so in professions which singularly require your creative talents ..like art.

  4. tariquesani · January 4, 2004 Reply

    Yeah! Been there done that too many times. It was good for the times when Money per-se gave me kicks, now it is a reverse relationship with Money 🙁

    That is why I have firmly decided that I will never sell any of my photographs, only gift them 😉

  5. Anonymous · January 6, 2004 Reply

    DOD(dept of defence) contractors have certain project management specs, just as ISO or CMM. in most cases you never have to worry about budget overruns or meeting goals. I was a software engineering major once, but soon realized, its more paper work and management than software. No wonder 48 states do not recognize software engineers as engineers

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