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2. The Birth of a Software Project

Leticia Portella1  
(1)
Dublin, Ireland
 

The future cannot be predicted, but futures can be invented.

—Dennis Gabor

Everything usually starts in the same way: there is something that can be solved or improved by the use of technology. Maybe it is an idea that someone had while seeing themselves or their friends struggle with something. Maybe a user that reported some extra functionality (usually called feature) they need. Having an idea for a software can be, by itself, something really hard, but having ...

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