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Re:Professional Software Development by perlgeek on Tuesday July 12, 2016 @01:41PM (#12080946)
Kudos for tackling such a huge range of topics!

As a proponent of Continuous Delivery, I found the part on releases a bit old-fashioned and slightly disappointing.

I can elaborate a bit more if you want, but most likely you're already familiar with the more iterative and automated approaches.

Everybody has their pet peeves, I guess.

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Re:Professional Software Development by TickleSteve on Tuesday July 12, 2016 @02:09PM (#12081165)
You're thinking too much about web and desktop software.

Software is often delivered with hardware or other services which have to have releases, hence releases are still very much a thing.

software world > web software.

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Re:Professional Software Development by mixmastamyk on Tuesday July 12, 2016 @02:39PM (#12081372)
Yes, it tries to be useful for all types of software. Iterative/incremental is covered in chapter 7 under "gradual development." CI/CD under Construction and Quality.

Also, to help understand the new, it helps to know the "old." At least that's what I thought. A number of people are mentioning it, so perhaps I shouldn't have ordered it that way.

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Re:Professional Software Development by mixmastamyk on Tuesday July 12, 2016 @02:47PM (#12081422)
> I can elaborate

Yes, if you don't think the discussion in Ch. 7 is adequate.

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