Category Archives: Software Engineering

What is Modern Software Engineering?

Posted on January 30, 2022 by davef

I have a new book out. It’s called “Modern Software Engineering” and I have been working on it for the past few years.  The ideas in it grew out of a growing realisation that the way that I approach software … Continue reading →

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Women in Computing

Posted on March 7, 2021 by davef

March 8th is International Women’s Day, which got me thinking again about why we have so few women programmers (well, in Europe and the USA anyway). Things didn’t start out this way. Many of the first programmers and pioneers of computing were … Continue reading →

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10 Years of “Continuous Delivery”

Posted on July 10, 2020 by davef

10 Years Since My Book Was Published My book, “Continuous Delivery” was launched on 10th August 2010, so in a few weeks time it will be the 10th anniversary of its publication. Jez and I spent 4 years writing the … Continue reading →

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Science and Software Development

Posted on March 4, 2019 by davef

I have been talking about Continuous Delivery being, informally, an application of the scientific method to software development for several years now. I have spoken about it, CD, being a candidate for the beginnings of a genuine engineering discipline for … Continue reading →

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Hygiene Factors for Software Development

Posted on February 12, 2019 by davef

I got into a small debate about software development with someone recently via the comments section to a previous blog-post. During the course of the debate I thought of an analogy to make part of my argument, but I think … Continue reading →

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