Richard's review
Dreaming in Code: Two Dozen Programmers, Three Years, 4,732 Bugs, and One Quest for Transcendent Software
by Scott Rosenberg
Richard's review
Dreaming in Code: Two Dozen Programmers, Three Years, 4,732 Bugs, and One Quest for Transcendent Software by Scott Rosenberg
Richard's review
rating:
recommended for: code monkeys
A very deep look into the chaos that is the software development lifecycle. Shows how software engineering is less engineering and more of an art. And it also brings home the point that software development simply cannot be managed using today's standard practices. You simply cannot speed up a project by throwing money and/or people at it, nor could you ever make a decent estimate of the completion date.
Despite the feeling of doom and gloom this book gives, however, I came away desperately wanting to join an open source project or two.
Despite the feeling of doom and gloom this book gives, however, I came away desperately wanting to join an open source project or two.
