SWENGINEER

"Software Engineering - from the Trenches" is about real-life situations encountered when developing software products... I selected the term Engineering (rather than Development or Methodology) to emphasize (a) the real-life aspect of it and (b) the goal of delivering an actual product: writing software is a necessary component of delivering a software product, but it is not sufficient. A lot more activities are involved that impact Engineering: from understanding customers, to building demos before the product ships, to installing the product efficiently at customer sites, to working with the support team and troubleshooting issues at customer sites …... The art and practice of delivering software products