I am proud to announce that after years of work, my book Sustainable Dual-Track Development, written with my co-author Todd Sedano, has been released! The book aims to reconcile user-centred design, agile methods, and sustainable development by advancing a “dual-track” project organization structure. It represents the most significant evolution of software development methods in almost 20 years. I hope you like it.
Sustainable Dual-Track Development is available for purchase through Routledge, Amazon, Indigo, and most major online bookstores.
Description:
Every decade or so, the software development community reinvents itself to address the dominant problems of the day. Agile methods reacted against slow, bureaucratic, documentation driven development. The next big shift reacts against unsustainable development practices.
This book advances dual-track development as a unifying framework for the best way of designing great products (user-centered design), the best way of delivering software efficiently (agile methods), and strategies for balancing present and future needs (sustainable development).
This book does not just recommend practices. It explains how to implement practices and the surprising science behind the practices, in an approachable, sometimes cheeky style. You won’t find a “Dual-track Master” telling you that you must do it exactly this way, otherwise you’re a sellout. Rather, this book describes a set of sociotechnical tools and gives advice for adapting these tools to your unique context.
Welcome to the future of software engineering that you actually want: one that embraces
clean code, hyper-productive programming, belongingness, empathy, environmental sustainability, economic feasibility, pro-social impact, and organizational justice.
Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Overview, Chapter 2: Balanced Teams, Chapter 3: The Product Backlog, Chapter 4: Boundary Spanning, Chapter 5: Project Management, Chapter 6: Introducing Track One, Chapter 7: Making Sense of the Project Environment, Chapter 8: Design Thinking, Chapter 9: Introducing Track Two, Chapter 10: Clean Code and Tests, Chapter 11: Integrating and Delivering, Chapter 12: Toward Organizational Justice, and Chapter 13: Conclusion
And to celebrate the launch, you can get 20% off the book at routledge.com by using the code 25ESA4
ATTENTION Professors of Computer Science – This book was written to double as a textbook. You can request an inspection copy through the publisher’s website.
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