Retrospective

Smart People, New Ideas, and our first taste of a growing community of other developers who have recognized a problem and are trying to find ways to address that. But is this the “silver bullet” we’re hoping for? Or are we better off looking for guiding lights?

In this chapter, we discovered…

  • Though there are significant challenges facing us, some smart people have brought forward new ideas to start moving the software industry in the right direction.

  • Agile methodologies offer an alternative to traditional Waterfall development for building software in iterations that help drop the cost of development.

  • Software developers need to learn to balance the objective craft of writing software with the subjective art that the unique demands ...

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