Preface
This book draws heavily on a series of columns called Franklin’s Kite that appeared in Rational Software’s e-zine, The Rational Edge, in the early 2000’s. These articles were aimed at software development managers, and their goal was to help readers avoid many of the common pitfalls that await software development projects and teams. More than 20 appeared, and we—my editor, Mike Perrow, and I—noticed that readers often began their monthly perusal of The Edge with The Kite.
My intention here is to not only to collect these articles but to sew them together in a form that makes them even more useful for software development managers and their managers. I have done that by reorganizing them thematically, instead of presenting them in the ...
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