Chapter 4The Nine Practices
Building software is complex—perhaps the most complex activity that humans can engage in. Writing software is a discipline that requires a range of skills and practices to accomplish successfully.
It’s easy to get it wrong—the virtual world is so different from the physical world. In the physical world, we can easily understand what it takes to build something, but in the virtual world this can be much more difficult to see and understand. The software development profession is just starting to figure things out, much like the medical profession a few hundred years ago.
It was less than two hundred years ago that the medical community laughed at Ignaz Semmelweis for proposing that microscopic creatures could cause ...
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