[Year 12 SofDev] Timeliness as an effectiveness measure

[Fitzpatrick, Michael]

Mark - you are a philosopher. Well said. Distinction between the process and the product - efficiency and effectiveness respectively.
Mike

From: sofdev-bounces at edulists.com.au [mailto:sofdev-bounces at edulists.com.au] On Behalf Of Mark KELLY
Sent: Monday, 29 October 2012 12:08 PM
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Subject: Re: [Year 12 SofDev] Timeliness as an effectiveness measure

Hi Andrew. I think it's a question of semantics.

You could say that timeliness is a property of the information, rather than of the system that produces it. It doesn't sound right to say a program is timely (unless the program itself arrives when its needed) whereas if the program were efficient it would produce information in a timely fashion.

So I'd say it still relates to speed, so it would be an efficiency issue.

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On 29 October 2012 00:22, Andrew Pate <arp at mentonegrammar.net<mailto:arp at mentonegrammar.net>> wrote:
Hi all,
We all know that time considerations are generally efficiency measures, but could you also say that producing an output within an appropriate-to-task time frame is an effective solution as well?

Thanks

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