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The Software Industry -- Software Lemmings / Alan M Davis -- Recovering from Method Abuse / Alan M Davis -- Tomorrow's Blacksmiths / Alan M Davis -- On Software Development Strategies, Politics, and Religion / Alan M Davis -- Art or Engineering, One More Time / Alan M Davis -- Why Build Software / Alan M Davis -- It Feels Like D�ej�a Vu All Over Again / Alan M Davis -- Eras of Software Engineering Technology Transfer / Alan M Davis -- Fifteen Principles of Software Engineering / Alan M Davis -- Thoughts on Software Estimation / Alan M Davis -- Management -- Trial By Firing: Saga of a Rookie Manager / Alan M Davis -- Can You Survive Your Management Mistakes / Alan M Davis -- Should He Stay or Should He Go? Advice for a Beleaguered Manager / Alan M Davis -- The Software Company Machine / Alan M Davis -- The Rise and Fall of a Software Startup / A Davis, A Zweig -- Anatomy of a Software Startup / E Bersoff -- Information for Decision Makers / Alan M Davis -- Some Tips for the Would-Be Entrepreneur / Alan M Davis -- Some More Tips for the Would-Be Entrepreneur / Alan M Davis -- Requirements -- The Harmony in Rechoirments / Alan M Davis -- System Phenotypes / Alan M Davis -- The Missing Piece of Software Development / A Davis, A Zweig -- Object-Oriented Analysis to Object-Oriented Design: An Easy Transition / Alan M Davis -- Achieving Quality in Software Requirements / Alan M Davis -- Requirements Management Made Easy / A Davis, A Zweig -- Elicitation: How Do the Experts Do It / A Davis, A Hickey -- Requirements Are But a Snapshot in Time / Alan M Davis -- Software Research and Academe -- Between Scylla and Charybdis / Alan M Davis -- Why Industry Often Says "No Thanks" to Research / Alan M Davis -- Requirements Researchers: Do We Practice What We Preach / A Davis, A Hickey -- From Wonderland to the Real Problem / Robert Glass -- Practitioner, Heal Thyself / Alan M Davis -- Life and Software -- Words of Wisdom / Alan M Davis -- More Words of Wisdom / Alan M Davis -- Product Not Process: A Parable / James Sanders -- Making a Mark on the World / Alan M Davis -- Rewards of Taking the Path Less Traveled / Alan M Davis -- Miscellaneous Thoughts on Evolution / Alan M Davis -- The Future.

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The industry's most outspoken and insightful critic explains how the software industry REALLY works. In Great Software Debates, Al Davis, shares what he has learned about the difference between the theory and the realities of business and encourages you to question and think about software engineering in ways that will help you succeed where others fail. In short, provocative essays, Davis fearlessly reveals the truth about process improvement, productivity, software quality, metrics, agile development, requirements documentation, modeling, software marketing and sales, empiricism, start-up financing, software research, requirements triage, software estimation, and entrepreneurship. He will get you thinking about: . The danger of following trends and becoming a #x91;software lemming'. Is software development art or engineering?. How to survive management mistakes. The bizarre world of software estimation. How to succeed as software entrepreneur. How to resolve incompatible schedules and requirements If you are in the software industry and do not know which way to turn, Great Software Debates provides valuable and insightful advice. Whether you are a software developer, software manager, software executive, entrepreneur, requirements writer, architect, designer, or tester, you will find no shortage of sound, palatable advice.

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