Preface
Hardly anyone gets into software development because they were forced into it. Many literally fall in love with programming and decide to pursue it for a living. And yet there is a vast gap between what most hoped their career would be like and the dark, depressing reality of software development. The software industry as a whole is in a deep crisis. What makes the crisis so acute is that it is multidimensional; every aspect of software development is broken:
Cost. There is weak correlation between the budget set for a project and what it will actually cost to develop the system. Many organizations do not even try to address the cost issue, perhaps because they simply do not know how, or perhaps because doing so will force them to recognize ...
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