Code is Design: Why software projects fail, and what developers and their clients can do about it, (Paperback)

<p>Your software project is late. It has cost twice what was budgeted. The features that were supposed to be ready six months ago still aren't working. And nobody - not the developers, not the consultants, not the project manager - can give you a straight answer about why.</p><p>The problem isn't incompetent developers or unreasonable clients. It isn't the wrong methodology, or insufficient process, or inadequate tools. It's a fundamental misunderstanding of what software development actually is - one that has persisted for fifty years, infected the way projects are planned and contracted, and cost organisations around the world billions in wasted effort and broken trust.</p><p>Drawing on over four decades of commercial development experience across industries and continents, Code Is Design exposes the construction myth at the heart of almost every failed software project: the belief that writing code is like building a bridge - that a system can be fully designed upfront, estimated with precision, and handed to a team of developers to simply "build." It cannot. And understanding why changes everything about how software projects should be run.</p><p>Whether you are a developer who has lost count of the times you have been asked for an impossible estimate, or a manager who cannot understand why your technology investments keep going sideways - this book was written for both of you.</p>

• Code is Design: Why software projects fail, and what developers and their clients can do about it, (Paperback)
• Author: Independently Published
• ISBN: 9798195018559
• Format: Paperback
• Publication Date: 2026-05-05
• Page Count: 224