Showing papers in "ACM Sigcsim Installation Management Review in 1977"
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TL;DR: This upsurge in the rare, programming-effectiveness syndrome is transitory and most likely was caused by subtle environmental changes such as corporate cost reduction campaigns impacting a monotonically decreasing programmer employment opportunity curve.
Abstract: Reports have come in from a few, scattered localities of an increase in the rare, programming-effectiveness syndrome. While the increase is rather small in absolute numbers, it is statistically significant at the .01 level. We believe that this upsurge is transitory and most likely was caused by subtle environmental changes such as corporate cost reduction campaigns impacting a monotonically decreasing programmer employment opportunity curve.
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TL;DR: There is an annual crop of statements by authors and data processing notables about how poorly data processing people communicate with users, but there is plenty of blame handed out, but not much specific advice.
Abstract: Person-to-person communication in data processing seems to increase in importance every year. There is an annual crop of statements by authors and data processing notables about how poorly data processing people communicate with users. There is plenty of blame handed out, but not much specific advice. Here is some advice. Glossaries help; so does training.
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