The Story So Far
Let’s return to the primary concern with Software. We’ve talked about how most software projects either fail altogether or run significantly over budget. Along with that thought, we considered the statistics that show that the development team itself plays little role in the success and failure of the project in comparison to users and sponsors. However, contrasting that we’ve looked at how software development is really developed in “thought units” more so then actual code.
These two facts seem on the surface to be at odds with each other. If software is really developed in “thought units” then why do users and sponsors have more control over the success and failure of the project then the developers?
Coding As Design
I will now explore this question further in a series of posts. But first, we need to look at the concepts of “software design” vs. “software coding”
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