The Big Ideas in Software Development

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10.1 Table of Contents

What follows is a Table of Contents for the work that shows both sections and chapters within sections.

1. Intro
2. Fundamental
- No. 1 – This Thinking Business
- No. 2 – Acknowledge Uncertainty
- No. 3 – The Inconvenient Nature of Software Development
- No. 4 – Software Development is a Balancing Act
- No. 5 – Create Value for Customers
- No. 6 – Automate Repetitive Tasks
- No. 7 – Use Things Already Known to Work
- No. 8 – Simplify and Generalize
- No. 9 – Decomposition
- No. 10 – Cohesion
- No. 11 – Loose Coupling
- No. 12 – Communicate Clearly
- No. 13 – Consider Alternatives
- No. 14 – Have Wonderful Arguments
- No. 15 – Show Rather than Tell
- No. 16 – Plan-Do-Check-Act
- No. 17 – Shorten Feedback Loops
- No. 18 – Understand the Arc of Your Project
- No. 19 – What's Not Done is as Important as What's Done
3. Leadership
- No. 20 – Entrepreneurial Leadership
- No. 21 – Build Great Teams
- No. 22 – Govern Wisely
- No. 23 – Take a Long-Term Economic Perspective
- No. 24 – Consider What Might Go Wrong
4. People
- No. 25 – Increase Developer Engagement
- No. 26 – Developers are Always Growing
- No. 27 – Developers Are Not Interchangeable
5. Initiation
- No. 28 – Agree on Terms of Engagement
- No. 29 – Pick the Right Sort of Customer Proxy
- No. 30 – Craft a Product Vision
- No. 31 – Quality Requires Extra Effort
- No. 32 – Plan Thoughtfully But Be Prepared for Change
- No. 33 – Tailor Thoughtfully
- No. 34 – Sharpen Your Axe
- No. 35 – When Estimating, the Whole is Definitely Greater than the Sum of its Parts
- No. 36 – Seek First to Understand Your Customer
- No. 37 – Just Enough Design Up Front
- No. 38 – Deliver Early and Often
6. Execution
- No. 39 – Self-Organizing Teams
- No. 40 – A Deliberate Approach to Decision-Making
- No. 41 – Decrease Friction, Increase Flow
- No. 42 – Configuration Management
- No. 43 – Limit Work in Progress
- No. 44 – Make Problems Visible
- No. 45 – Remain Open to Fresh Learning
- No. 46 – Don't Wait to Integrate
7. Caution
- No. 47 – Software is Different
- No. 48 – Software Development is a Craft
- No. 49 – Documentation Is Not an End Unto Itself
- No. 50 – Do Not Place Excessive Faith in Project and Program Management
- No. 51 – Let the Buyer Beware
- No. 52 – Stay Focused on the Creation of Working Software for Real People
8. Pagan Tuna Posts
- 8.1 Agile Architecture
- 8.2 Benefits of the Scaled Agile Framework
- 8.3 The Core Design Principles for Teams
- 8.4 Customer Communication
- 8.5 The Dreyfus Model of Skill Acquisition
- 8.5 EVM for Mere Mortals
- 8.6 Fighting Organizational Friction
- 8.7 Lessons We (Should) Have Learned from the Web
- 8.8 A New Model for Lean Culture
- 8.9 Model Mania
- 8.9 The Power of Diverse Teams
- 8.10 The Primary Functions of Management
- 8.11 Software Defects
- 8.12 Take the Agile Train
- 8.13 Taming the E-mail Monster
- 8.14 Ten Reasons to Ditch Your Word Documents
- 8.15 Thinking Differently about Perfectionism
- 8.16 The Watery Ketchup Stops Here
9. Reference
- 9.1 About the Author
- 9.4 Glossary
- 9.5 Colophon
10. Navigation
11. Bibliography

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