The Laws of Software Process

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The Future of Software Development

process of building systems as one of our primary teaching methods. The

problems with this are obvious:

• While people are learning by building systems, they are also building

their lack of knowledge into the system they are building.

• The learning process is quite unstructured, often requiring people

to learn the same lessons several times until they are able to recog-

nize the commonality of the problems.

• If one person learns something, that knowledge is rarely available

to others who have to go through their own unique learning curve

on the very same type of problem.

• As people rise through the ranks of development expertise, they are

often promoted to levels where they no longer need to use the

knowledge they ...