The book Software Development Metrics by Dave Nicolette explores how to use metrics to track and guide software development. It explains how different development approaches and process models, like ...

November 3, 2025) - A new book, What's Wrong With Developers? The Truths, Myths, and Contradictions Making Software So Hard to Make by Bron Davies takes a critical look at the forces shaping today's ...

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Defining a formal domain ontology is generally considered a useful, not to say necessary step in almost every software project. This is because software deals with ideas rather than with self-evident ...

When Promptworks cofounder Jason Garber started jotting down ideas and concepts about pair programming — a software development method that allows two programmers to work synchronously on a project — ...

Many programmers feel that the Rational Unified Process (RUP) is too rigid and structured for small development projects. Proponents of agile and extreme programming have similar concerns. To answer ...

The e-book boom hasn't changed one hard fact about the publishing trade: Unless you're a big-name author, you can't throw your book out there and expect it to sell itself. Marketing is what makes for ...