The Business of Software

OK Book. Heres some coding best practice highlights:

• Focus Creativity
1. Divide large projects into milestone cycles
2. Use a vision statement and outline feature specifications
3. Base feature selection and prioritization on user activities and data
4. Evolve a modular and horizontal design architecture
5. Control by individual commitments to small tasks and fixed project resources
• Work In parallel but synchronize continuously
1. Work in parallel teams but synch up and debug daily
2. Always have a product you can ship
3. Speak a common language
4. Continuously test as you build
5. Use metric data to determine milestone completion

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