Title: A difficult read from knowledgable authors.
Product review: A difficult read. Decipher this, for example: "To transition to well-defined development practices, an organization needs to institutionalize a documented process that can be prescriptively applied to individual software systems development projects." This quote was taken from the first two pages of Chapter 1, "Motivation". When you have to read a sentence five times to understand it, it isn't very motivating. It doesn't get better. The figures appear to have been taken directly from a PowerPoint presentation, and do little to clarify the concepts. This could be a good book, as it appears to contain much useful information. It could use a thorough going-over by a technical writer and an illustrator, however.
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