The Laws of Software Process

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THE LAWS OF SOFTWARE PROCESS

transfer of knowledge), writing a book about it which I read (book–brain

transfer) or created scripts which I can use (the executable software form).

Obviously, both the “amount” and “quality” of knowledge in a process is

proportional to the similarity of the systems being worked when the pro-

cess was created and the system I am trying to build using the process.

Using Systems to Build Processes

We usually think of using a process to create a system, but it also goes

the other way. In fact, the only legitimate way to create a process is to use

a system to prove the process. We can create meta processes through ana-

lytical activity — we can just sit down and think up the process. But we will

not know if the process truly ...