Re: Movie making Vs Software Development

>For example, when creating a so-called
> shrink wrapped software product there is often no specific end user who
> provides the software requirements. 

I am looking at the whole thing trying to see how CMM and RUP fits in,
or for that matter, repeatable processes. I think RUP or CMM will
ensure through processes that if the end user requirements are
understood properly they are delivered. However as far as software
product even CMM or RUP can't ensure the success of the software
product. They ensure the success of the product PROVIDED you
understand the requirements properly. If thats where you are failing
even those processes can't ensure success.

I completely agree, that product development has loads of attributes
similar to movie making. But then CMM or RUP doesn't help you
understand the user requirement, of course it gives you tools to
capture the requirements but understanding is up to us. So CMM or RUP
will not ensure success of software product. It will only ensure the
capture requirements are delivered. And I am sure we can come up with
repeatable process for movie making to deliver the captured
requirements. How you understand what the viewers and capture them is
up to you????

Regards
Senthoor



On Mon, 28 Jun 2004 09:20:55 -0500, Steve Bate 
<steve-XLRE/RlQ5k1g9hUCZPvPmw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > From: 88Pro [mailto:catchgod-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> >
> > Andy has posted a challenge to come up with repeatable process for
> > movie making.
> >
> > http://www.toolshed.com/blog/SoftwareDevelopment/CmmMovies.html,v
> >
> > I don't quite agree on that since I don't believe there are comparable
> > in the first place, here is why!
> 
> Hi Senthoor,
> 
> In my opinion, defining requirements for movies and for some common types
> of software is very similar. For example, when creating a so-called
> shrink wrapped software product there is often no specific end user who
> provides the software requirements. There are many potential consumers
> of the software with varying and potentially conflicting desires. Part
> of the marketing challenge for this type of product is to understand
> the characteristics of the group of potential customers and determine
> a feature set that will result in as many purchases as possible. This
> is a "guess" as you described it, but an educated one. During the course
> of doing market research (which often continues well into the product
> development phase), the feature set and related requirements will
> probably change as the target customer group is better understood or if
> their needs change signficantly.
> 
> My understanding is that big budget movies are similar. A marketing
> group defines the movie "features" based on an analysis of movie consumers.
> The director and production staff define the high level and then detailed
> design of the movie (shooting scripts, required props, locations,
> storyboards, special effects requirements). I've never produced a movie,
> but I'm guessing that many of these designs and plans must be altered
> frequently as the movie is being shot.
> 
> One significant difference I see between movie making and software
> development is that the final movie is a small subset of the film footage
> that was recorded during production. If we wrote software where the
> final product has 10% of the code that we wrote during development we'd
> probably think we were being very efficient. In this sense, it seems that
> movie makers usually overproduce content and then piece together the
> final product based on the quality of the content and knowledge of the
> business environment at the time the movie is edited. This attribute
> seems to make a CMM analogy questionable.
> 
> There are definitely repeatable formulas in the film making industry.
> There aren't any that guarantee a hit movie independent of the the
> talent of the movie makers and actors -- and that seemed to be Andy's
> point.
> 
> Steve
> 
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