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  The essentials of modern software engineering: free the practices from the method prisons!
Jacobson I., Lawson H., Ng P., McMahon P., Goedicke M., Association for Computing Machinery and Morgan & Claypool, New York, NY, 2019. 401 pp.  Type: Book

This introductory software engineering textbook differs from others in that it does not focus on one particular methodology. Instead, the book focuses on identifying the essence of software engineering, a meta-model that allows the rea...
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Oct 14 2019  
   15 fundamentals for higher performance in software development: includes discussions on CMMI, lean Six Sigma, agile and SEMAT’s essence framework
McMahon P., PEM Systems, 2014. 336 pp.  Type: Book (978-0-990450-83-2)

Readers will find a good bridge between real-world practice and theoretical guidelines and measures for software process improvements for practicing professionals in this book. It begins by highlighting that collectively we fall short ...
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May 8 2015  
  The essence of software engineering: applying the SEMAT kernel
Jacobson I., Ng P., McMahon P., Spence I., Lidman S., Addison-Wesley Professional, Upper Saddle River, NJ, 2013. 352 pp.  Type: Book (978-0-321885-95-1)

This is a difficult book to review. First, the title implies that it covers “the essence of software engineering,” which I consider an exaggeration. The content is definitely related to the discipline, but in a diff...
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Aug 16 2013  

   
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