Foreword

If your business future depends on software—and there are very few organizations left that don’t—you should find this book invaluable. Most organizations are facing at least the following challenges:

• Their core competence and competitive differentiation increasingly depend on a mastery of software delivery.

• Their track record is weak, with more than half of their software projects failing to deliver satisfactorily within acceptable scope, budget, and schedule constraints.

• There is a greater premium on development time and delivery quality.

• There are not enough good software people to go around. Great architects and project managers are particularly scarce.

Facing these challenges is a daunting task. To be competitive, businesses ...

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