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by neves 231 days ago
Do you have any good recommendations about recent software development research?

Till today I still share with my coworkers this 15yo article from Microsoft Research:

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/exploding-soft...

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Thanks, read the paper about testing the mythical man month theory.

Seems the conclusions are: fewer people is better; only one "organisation" or group should contribute to the code; ownership should be at the lowest level possible, not a high up manager; and knowledge retention is important, effectively manage people leaving and make sure the design rational is well documented