Summary

Offers a theory for software development management that suggests an adaptive culture in which change and uncertainty are assumed to be the natural state, as opposed to the conventional belief that optimization is the only solution to increasingly complex problems. The approach combines customer focus groups, versioning, time-boxed management, and active prototyping. The book does not provide a set of prescriptive rules or tasks, but a framework of concepts, practices, and guidelines. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR