9. Troubleshooting the Project
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“Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
—Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina1
Figure 9.1 Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy.
Tolstoy’s aphorism applies to software projects, too. There are many patterns of unhappiness in a software project, which are usually manifested in a couple dozen symptoms.
This chapter focuses on these patterns, the symptoms, and how to recognize them. By now, I hope you are convinced of the value-up paradigm, which asserts that we apply systems ...
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