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Title: Should Be Required Reading for Development Managers
Review: A great read! The author outlines a systematic and controlled approach to software development, explaining why each step is necessary and the consequences of NOT doing them. Having worked in development shops which had no formal process, I found an amazing laundy list of everything that we had done wrong! The book does not go in depth on how to perform each of the steps of a successful Dev process, but it is excellent for getting a Manager (or programmer) to understand the benefits of each part of the process, and the pitfalls of NOT doing them. It also offers an excellent reference list of other dev. process books including some with more in-depth coverage on the how-to's.
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