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Patrick Gleeson, Working with Coders, 10.1007/978-1-4842-2701-5_4

4. What Do They Do All Day?

What Code Actually Is and How It Gets Written

Patrick Gleeson

(1)London, UK

We’re going to change gears. Having spent a couple of chapters looking at the management of software development, we’re now going to take a closer look at software development itself, and the processes that involves. Let me stress again, it is not my intention to try to teach you how to code , nor to waste your time with minutiae that are of no relevance to your job. You, a manager of software developers, don’t need to know everything about the software development process. Not everything. But you will find that, when talking to your developers, you are given ...

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