This is certainly the only usage that makes sense to me. If you say that you're going to "google" something, my expectation is that you would perform a search on google.com, not just any old search engine.
When did the definition of reverse engineering get extended to include copying features from a competing product? Of course I'd call it reverse engineering if Company B disassembles Company A's product and learns something in the process. But how can looking at the feature set count???
And there's a second-order affect of this process...developer's rarely get to test their estimate and refine their estimation methods.
If you estimate 12 weeks but get beaten down to 3 weeks by management, you never find out if 12 weeks was a good estimate. No feedback means no learning.
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This is certainly the only usage that makes sense to me. If you say that you're going to "google" something, my expectation is that you would perform a search on google.com, not just any old search engine.
When did the definition of reverse engineering get extended to include copying features from a competing product? Of course I'd call it reverse engineering if Company B disassembles Company A's product and learns something in the process. But how can looking at the feature set count???
And there's a second-order affect of this process...developer's rarely get to test their estimate and refine their estimation methods.
If you estimate 12 weeks but get beaten down to 3 weeks by management, you never find out if 12 weeks was a good estimate. No feedback means no learning.