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H. NegleyThe Salesforce Consultant’s Guidehttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-7960-1_4

4. The Evolution of Software Development

Heather Negley1  
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Fairfax, VA, USA
 

The process of creating software has gone through several significant incarnations that are important to understand if you want to advise clients on the best way to develop software. The activity of writing software for computers began in the middle of the 20th century using tools and techniques that would be unfamiliar to most people today. Automation led to digital modernization strategies with priorities from companies to make changes to software more and more often. Newer project management ...

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