SWE 205 Reading Reflection Number 5
Due Monday, February 19, 2024


  1. List the names of students in your group.
  2. Did everyone in your group contribute to the discussion of your solutions to this reading reflection? If not, who did not?
  3. Classifying work as excise vs. revenue (or goal-directed) is a simple yet powerful analysis technique. Has anyone in your group every applied this technique? If so, where?
  4. Excise comes in quite a lot of varieties, and, according to Cooper, is always a target for elimination. Which type of excise (as defined by Cooper) does your group find most burdensome, and why? (Vote for one only.)
  5. Has anyone in your group ever applied any of Cooper's strategies for eliminating excise? If so, which ones?