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Emergent Design: The Evolutionary Nature of Professional Software Development
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Emergent Design: The Evolutionary Nature of Professional Software Development

by Scott L. Bain
February 2008
Intermediate to advanced
448 pages
9h 46m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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Series Foreword: The Net Objectives Product Development Series

Alan Shalloway, CEO, Net Objectives

If you are like me, you will just skim this series foreword and move on, figuring there is nothing of substance here. That would be a mistake. Unless you have read this foreword in another book in the series, please take a moment with me at the outset of this book. I want to consider with you a tale that most people know but don’t often think about. That tale is about what is ailing this industry. And that tale sets the context for why we created the Net Objectives Product Development Series and this particular book.

I have been doing software development since 1970. To me, it is just as fresh today as it was almost four decades ago. It is a never-ending ...

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