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It is suggested that the role of an environment is to support effective use of an effective process. Such a process is complex, varied, organisation-specific, and evolving. Consideration of these process characteristics raises a number of issues concerning the scope of an environment, its overall architecture, and its data structures. Introduction Concern here is with integrated project support environments. Specifically the intention is to review the role of such environments and then to explore some of the implications of that role. Thus the discussion is not at the level of design and implementation, but rather at the level of objectives and desiderata. The Role of an Environment In exploring the role of an environment it is helpful -perhaps even necessary --to go right back to basics. A useful starting point is to consider the fundamental nature of the computing business.Ours is basically a manufacturing industry. We make 'things', be they individual programs, individual pieces of hardware, complete stand-alone systems, embedded systems, or whatever. These are our products, and in common with other manufacturing industries we have certain basic objectives for these products. We

Author

Vie Stenning

Published

1970