The Leprechauns of Software Engineering - Couverture souple

Bossavit, Laurent

 
9782954745503: The Leprechauns of Software Engineering
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 2954745509 ISBN 13 : 9782954745503
Editeur : Laurent Bossavit, 2013

Synopsis

The software profession has a problem, widely recognized but which nobody seems willing to do anything about; a variant of the well known "telephone game", where some trivial rumor is repeated from one person to the next until it has become distorted beyond recognition and blown up out of all proportion. Unfortunately, the objects of this telephone game are generally considered cornerstone truths of the discipline, to the point that their acceptance now seems to hinder further progress. This book takes a look at some of those "ground truths": the claimed 10x variation in productivity between developers; the "software crisis"; the cost-of-change curve; the "cone of uncertainty"; and more. It assesses the real weight of the evidence behind these ideas - and confronts the scary prospect of moving the state of the art forward in a discipline that has had the ground kicked from under it.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

The software profession has a problem, widely recognized but which nobody seems willing to do anything about; a variant of the well known "telephone game", where some trivial rumor is repeated from one person to the next until it has become distorted beyond recognition and blown up out of all proportion. Unfortunately, the objects of this telephone game are generally considered cornerstone truths of the discipline, to the point that their acceptance now seems to hinder further progress. This book takes a look at some of those "ground truths": the claimed 10x variation in productivity between developers; the "software crisis"; the cost-of-change curve; the "cone of uncertainty"; and more. It assesses the real weight of the evidence behind these ideas - and confronts the scary prospect of moving the state of the art forward in a discipline that has had the ground kicked from under it.

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Éditeur
Laurent Bossavit
Date d'édition
2013
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
2954745509
ISBN 13 
9782954745503
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
195
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
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