A Friendly Guide to Software Development: What You Should Know Without Being a Developer

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L. PortellaA Friendly Guide to Software Development Friendly Guides to Technologyhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-8969-3_8

8. How Do We Build Software?

Leticia Portella¹  

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Dublin, Ireland

 

Change your opinions, keep your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.

—Victor Hugo

So far, we spent a long time on decisions and work that happen before a single line of code is ever written. We have the requirements for the MVP, we know the tools, now comes the fun part! It’s time to start building it. To do that, we need to have developers working together toward common goals. How does this typically work?

8.1 The Old Way

Once upon a time, the development ...