Part VI: What’s Really New Here?

This is not the first attempt to find a way to work with methods, so we are not starting from scratch. The software community has been doing this for 50 years or more. However, previous attempts have not been very successful in reaching out to the large number of professionals working with software. This initiative with the kernel and SEMAT in general has carefully studied previous attempts and why they have failed in getting more people interested. We learned what works and what doesn’t. We identified several key problems or challenges that we addressed in a fundamentally new way. In this part of the book we will summarize the key differentiators of the SEMAT approach and how they will make a difference to software ...

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