Experience is a powerful teacher, but it is also slow and painful. Software practitioners can't afford to make every mistake others have suffered. Software Development Pearls: Lessons from Fifty Years of Software Experience helps you compress your learning curve—and bypass much of the pain—by absorbing lessons from others who have served in the trenches before you.

From my 50+ years of experience with software and drawing on more than 25 years of helping software teams succeed in nearly 150 organizations, I present 60 lessons you can apply to projects, regardless of the application domain, technology, or development lifecycle. Highly pragmatic and illustrated with more than 100 true-story experiences, these principles, perspectives, and practices have proven valid for decades, and they will remain relevant for many years to come.

Software Development Pearls covers multiple crucial domains of project success: requirements, design, project management, culture and teamwork, quality, and process improvement. Each chapter suggests several "First Steps" and "Next Steps" to help you begin applying its content immediately—and begin developing products more successfully.

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