X-Git-Url: https://us-delaporte.pagekite.me/gitweb/coding-is-stupid.git/blobdiff_plain/365c44d9a194e0d861b523a72729f5feea2ae8ef..refs/heads/main:/index.Rmd diff --git a/index.Rmd b/index.Rmd index 034e908..f204d85 100644 --- a/index.Rmd +++ b/index.Rmd @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ author: "Edward Delaporte V" > "How I Learned to Stop Worrying, and Love Software Engineering." -This book contains critical advice that no one told you about getting results from software engineers. +This is a concise guide to navigating painful truths to achieve elegant software. While my career managing software engineers benefitted greatly from them, this book will not attempt to cover topics from [Extreme Programming Explained][2] or [The Dragon Book (Compilers: Principles, Techniques and Tools)][3]. @@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ I have heard that 19 out of 20 software projects fail, by any reasonable success When I first heard the 19/20 statistic, I assumed this meant that any given team, on any given project, faced 95% odds of failure. -But I put to all of you this awful insight: +But I put to you this awful insight: - On any given project, 19 out of 20 software teams face around 99.9% odds of failure. - On any given project, 1 out of 20 software teams face around 99.9% odds of success.