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Tribal Memory

By Grady Booch

By Grady Booch on
March 26, 2008

cityscape with computer chipsIn this Episode

Grady discusses how a software development organization can preserve its stories in a system's written architecture and make evolving that system materially easier.

From IEEE Software's Issue No. 02 — Mar./Apr. 2008


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. Learn more about Booch.

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