Chapter 26. Blog Entry: Software Development Black Market

DO OR DIE

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There is not one thing called a software development department. Or the “Programming Division of IS.” Or whatever it is called at your company. Each department is very different whether it employs 3 programmers, or 30, or 3,000. It's different yet again whether you help sell books for an e-commerce site, make garage doors or thermostats work, help create a program that gets burned onto CDs and shrink-wrapped and sold in Wal-Marts throughout the world, or make, automate, and integrate business applications for a government entity. But in each of these very different places seethes a very real and very scary possibility—the possibility that your team is slowly ...

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