This Book

Managing Software for Growth is for managers. That describes everybody in the management hierarchy, up to the CEO. But I wrote this book for people sandwiched in the middle of their organizations, the people who most often receive demands from above and somehow have to produce the demanded results. What you learned in school and on the job, the thinking you internalized, and the realities of software development make it tremendously difficult for you to make that happen. I believe it can happen, but you have to think and behave differently.

I organized this book into four parts:

Part IManufacturing Software. What it means for projects, why we keep doing it, and why it makes very little sense anymore.
Part IIComplexity. How complexity ...

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