E-Management and Quality Assurance G
Proceedings of ICALEPCS2003, Gyeongju, Korea E-MANAGEMENT AND QUALITY ASSURANCE G. Milcinski, J. Dovc, J. Kamenik, A. Kmet, I. List, M. Plesko, K. Zagar, JSI and Cosylab, Ljubljana, Slovenia Abstract overhead? Especially in the academically minded sphere, When control system development is done, one might where the progress is based on improvisation and the ask: ‘Does it work?’, ‘Who implemented this responsibility is scattered among large number of group component?’, ‘How much time had he spent doing it?’ members, people do not want to work in such a way. The and ‘Was the component implemented on time?’ In problem appears when the group is involved in an academically-minded development environments, such as important project. Suddenly W-questions appear again. the KGB Team [1] of the Jozef Stefan Institute, the usual This time they are slightly different: answers to these questions would be: ‘It works just fine?’, ‘Given the colorful appearance of the buttons I’d say it What is wrong here? was John?’, ‘Does it matter?’, and ‘No, but it is not a Where is the guy who did this mess? problem, since the whole project was late anyway.’ Due to HoW can we fix it? the lack of up-front planning and accurate progress When can I go on vacation? tracking, there usually remains little time for testing the Who am I kidding? control system thoroughly and documenting it comprehensively. Consequentially, only the author truly The fundamental distinction between both systems is understands his work, and is, thus, irreplaceable. But what the fact, that, in the first case, we can actually find if he leaves the team? Who will take up his answers.
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