Section 1

1 If not, I highly recommend that you read the book Emergent Design by Scott L. Bain. Not only is Scott a good friend, but he is also a good author who makes an excellent case for software development as a profession with maintainability in response to change as the central concerns.

2 For all intents and purposes, autonomation means “to render autonomic.” It’s possibly not technically a word yet, but it is a well-known and well-understood concept in the Lean community. More information can be found at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonomation.

3 Object-relational mapping.

4 Or perhaps it allowed us to hide from the iterative nature of software development. I guess it all depends on how you look at it.

Section 2

5 You can ...

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