The Leprechauns of Software Engineering

The Leprechauns of Software Engineering
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Book Synopsis The Leprechauns of Software Engineering by : Laurent Bossavit

Download or read book The Leprechauns of Software Engineering written by Laurent Bossavit and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-06-28 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The software profession has a problem, widely recognized but which nobody seems willing to do anything about; a variant of the well known ""telephone game,"" where some trivial rumor is repeated from one person to the next until it has become distorted beyond recognition and blown up out of all proportion. Unfortunately, the objects of this telephone game are generally considered cornerstone truths of the discipline, to the point that their acceptance now seems to hinder further progress. This book takes a look at some of those ""ground truths"" the claimed 10x variation in productivity between developers; the ""software crisis""; the cost-of-change curve; the ""cone of uncertainty""; and more. It assesses the real weight of the evidence behind these ideas - and confronts the scary prospect of moving the state of the art forward in a discipline that has had the ground kicked from under it.


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