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15. Building Software Is More Than Developers

Leticia Portella1  
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Dublin, Ireland
 

While writing code can be a solitary act, making software isn’t.

—Duretti Hirpa

With a few exceptions, this book discusses work that is typically executed by developers. This is on purpose, as I focused on demystifying the technical side of a software product. However, there is a common assumption that the software industry is basically composed of developers.

Although developers are at the core of the software industry, as they are the ones who write ...

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