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This book is about the science of creating software. More and more organizations are demanding that instead of being a mysterious activity practiced by a smart but unsocial group of people, software development should become a transparent business process that produces reliable outcomes. Software has become too important in the modern world to leave its creation to chance and faith.

Transparency generates trust. Communication improves productivity. Collaboration decreases execution risks. These are time-honored tenets that work when undertaking any team activity. Software development is no different. But implementing this knowledge in everyday software development activities isn’t easy, given how diverse the stakeholders are ...

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