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Software Craftsmanship: The New Imperative
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Software Craftsmanship: The New Imperative

by Pete McBreen
August 2001
Intermediate to advanced
208 pages
4h 9m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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Part 3. Implications of Software Craftsmanship

Software craftsmanship is a metaphor that can radically transform the way we create and deliver software systems and that has implications for the way we develop software, manage teams, and deliver value to users. In exploring these implications, it is necessary to identify what we will have to do differently in order for these changes to occur. After all, things rarely change just because of an idea; instead, they change because we act on the idea and make decisions based on it.

Software craftsmanship will make a difference to the experience of using systems and in the process of actually getting systems written, both from the customers' and the managers' viewpoints. These areas are explored separately ...

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