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Facing Future

By Grady Booch

By Grady Booch on
March 26, 2012

cityscape with computer chipsIn this Episode

Every successful software-intensive system comes to a point where placing a pile of your best developers at one end of a lever can no longer move the world. Crossing that point while preserving the values and tribal memory of your organization's development culture requires serious adult supervision.

From IEEE Software's Issue No. 02 — Mar./Apr. 2012


Grady Booch

About Grady Booch

Grady Booch is a Chief Scientist of Software Engineering at IBM. He is recognized internationally for improving the art and the science of software development and has served as architect and architectural mentor for numerous complex software-intensive systems around the world. The author of six best-selling books and several hundred articles on computing, he has lectured on topics as diverse as software methodology and the morality of computing. He is an IBM Fellow, an IEEE Fellow, an ACM Fellow, a World Technology Network Fellow, and a Software Development Forum Visionary.

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