May 2020
Beginner
212 pages
4h 2m
English
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2 OVERVIEW OF SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT IN CONTEXT
The trouble with programmers is that you can never tell what a programmer is doing until it’s too late.
Seymour Cray
The SFIA framework specifically mentions context, so this chapter is a broad introduction to the practice of software development and where the developer role belongs in the greater context of systems and solution development. It considers what a developer produces and examines the broad range of products and industries that need developers. It also looks at where development output and developers fit into a system life cycle (that is, the lifetime of a product/system, from conception to eventual decommissioning).
WHAT IS DEVELOPMENT?
In the context of this book I am using ‘development’ ...