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“I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.” - <Douglas Adams
Why should you read this? Building software is hard. Doing it under the pressure of deadlines and moving targets is even harder. Therefore, you will learn about common, challenging scenarios you will face while doing your job and how to overcome them.
What will you learn? You will learn practical techniques backed by studies that allow you to protect both your team and themselves when times are tough. This includes common criticism of programmers being slow and being told to work harder by impatient and non-technical people. ...
Where are we going next, and how does this fit in? Stepping back from the maelstrom of ...