This is a book about how software is created, and the people who do the creating. In particular, it’s about how weird and idiosyncratic the process of creating software is, how fickle, and how disaster-prone. And believe me, it is disaster-prone. A study of IT projects at large organizations showed that the average budget overrun of projects that included software creation was 50% higher than of those that didn’t, while the average schedule overrun was ten times higher.1 It’s not just that software creation takes longer than anyone predicts and costs more; it’s that the extent to which it defies ...
© Patrick Gleeson 2017
Patrick Gleeson, Working with Coders, 10.1007/978-1-4842-2701-5_1
1. Introductions
You, Me, and This
Patrick Gleeson1
(1)London, UK
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