Chapter 8
What to Do Next
We’ve covered a lot of ground up to this point. I’ve shared with you fifty-nine lessons about software engineering and project management that I’ve accumulated since I began programming five decades ago. These lessons fall into six domains: requirements, design, project management, culture and teamwork, quality, and process improvement. There are certainly other vital aspects of software development that I haven’t addressed here, including coding, testing, and configuration management. Now I have just one question for you:
What are you going to do differently after reading this book?
If you worked through the First Steps and Next Steps in each chapter, you should have a list of your project team’s or organization’s ...
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