Foreword
For almost ten years I’ve been encouraging Sam Guckenheimer to write a book about software engineering. “Oh no, I’m not ready,” was the invariable reply.
With the release of Visual Studio Team System, Sam no longer had an excuse: he really had to explain his ideas about software engineering to help people make sense of the product that embodies them. It’s great to see that turn into a book that puts equal weight on practicum and theory, rather than a book-length product advertisement or a vague discussion of the philosophy of software engineering. I like the concrete examples here: they make the concepts come alive.
One key concept in this book is that of value-up processes. Sam believes that we are facing a huge paradigm shift in the ...
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