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Software Design X-Rays
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Software Design X-Rays

by Adam Tornhill
March 2018
Intermediate to advanced
276 pages
7h 11m
English
Pragmatic Bookshelf
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The demand to give up the illusions about one’s condition is the demand to give up a condition that needs illusions.

Sigmund Freud

Appendix 1The Hazards of Productivity and Performance Metrics

Knowledge maps facilitate communication across an organization because they help you find the people that carry the history of your codebase and product in their heads. Often their stories complement the analysis results and help you put your findings into context. However, using the same data for performance evaluations is dangerous, so let’s look into that topic as a cautionary tale.

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