Engineering on the surprise continuum

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Engineering on the surprise continuum: as applied to software practice

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ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes archive
Volume 30 , Issue 5 (September 2005) table of contents

SECTION: Article abstracts with full text online table of contents

Pages: 1 - 6

Year of Publication: 2005

ISSN:0163-5948

Author

Richard Riehle

Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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ABSTRACT

Speakers at conferences often mention the Principle of Least Surprise. This article explores the notion of surprise on a Surprise Tolerance Continuum. We also comment on how different disciplines benefit from managing surprise. Since this publication deals with software engineering, we focus on problems related to the creation, management, and maintenance of software.

CITED BY

Peter J. Denning , Richard D. Riehle, The profession of IT
Is software engineering engineering?, Communications of the ACM, v.52 n.3, March 2009

INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
K. Computing Milieux
K.6 MANAGEMENT OF COMPUTING AND INFORMATION SYSTEMS
K.6.3 Software Management
Subjects: Software development