Management Techniques for Real Time Computer Programming

The real time programming management tasks are threefold: (1) controlling the work of programmers, (2) managing pressures for program change, and (3) allocating the program (as a limited resource) among functions it is required to perform. Terms of reference are established by contrasting non-real time and real time programs. The implications of concurrent program component production for work control are analyzed. The program is treated as a system component subject to system constraints including accommodation (to other components), schedule, and resource limitations and considerations Useful ways of thinking about the program are developed and methods for programming work control and for managing change and program-content quality are suggested.