Software Magazine, April 1st, 1988
A recent survey by Software Market Research demonstrates that measurement of applications backlogs may be open to multiple interpretations. Experienced users of computer-aided software engineering (CASE) tools averaged mainframe backlogs of 46 months, minicomputer backlogs of 26 moths, and PC backlogs of 19 months. This contrasts with a surveyed general MIS population that reported mainframe backlogs of 16 months, minicomputer backlogs of 12 months, and PC backlogs of six months. Do CASE users make the backlog worse, or were the CASE users driven to obtain the tools because of their backlogs? ...
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