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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Software Tar Pit | |
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| Wrestling with Dinosaurs | |
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| Fool's Gold | |
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| Moving the Block | |
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| Stone Blocks and Software | |
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| Code-and-Fix Development | |
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| Focus on Quality | |
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| Some Fool's Gold Is Silver | |
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| Software Isn't Soft | |
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| How Fool's Gold Pans Out | |
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| Cargo Cult Software Engineering | |
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| Software Imposters | |
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| Cargo Cult Software Engineering | |
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| The Real Debate | |
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| Software Engineering, Not Computer Science | |
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| "Is" vs. "Should" | |
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| Engineering vs. Science | |
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| Beyond the Buzzword | |
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| The Right Questions | |
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| Body of Knowledge | |
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| Essence and Accident | |
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| Defining a Stable Core | |
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| Software Engineering's Body of Knowledge | |
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| Planting a Stake | |
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| Novum Organum | |
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| Profession Defined | |
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| In Search of a Software Engineering Profession | |
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| Through the Pillars | |
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| Individual Professionalism | |
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| Orphans Preferred | |
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| The Meyers-Briggs Type Indicator | |
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| MBTI Results for Software Developers | |
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| Personality Characteristics of Great Designers | |
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| Total and Absolute Commitment | |
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| Software Demographics | |
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| Education | |
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| Job Prospects | |
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| Programming Heroes and Ball Hogs | |
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| Cult of Personality | |
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| Raising Your Software Consciousness | |
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| Can't Get No Satisfaction | |
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| Love the One You're With | |
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| Are You Experienced? | |
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| Building the Community | |
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| Architects and Carpenters | |
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| Job Stratification | |
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| Job Specialization | |
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| Team Specializations | |
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| Time Will Tell | |
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| Programmer Writing | |
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| Organizational Professionalism | |
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| Software Gold Rushes | |
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| Software Gold Rushes | |
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| Post-Gold Rush Development | |
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| The Sense and Nonsense of Gold Rush Economics | |
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| Scaling Up and Scaling Down | |
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| Back to the Gold Rush | |
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| Business Case for Better Software Practices | |
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| State of the Practice | |
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| Detailed Benefits of Improved Software Practices | |
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| ROIs for Selected Practices | |
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| Insights from Software Estimation | |
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| Indirect Benefits of Improved Software Practices | |
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| A View of the Best | |
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| Challenge Is Organizational | |
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| The Last Great Frontier | |
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| Ten Tough Questions | |
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| Ptolemaic Reasoning | |
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| Overview of SW-CMM | |
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| Moving Up | |
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| All the Risk You Can Handle | |
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| Who Uses the SW-CMM? | |
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| Soul-Less Software Development | |
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| Serious Commitment | |
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| Ratings for Organizations | |
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| Form and Substance | |
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| Quantifying Personnel Factors | |
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| Personnel Factors | |
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| Low-Productivity Programmers | |
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| Physical Environment | |
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| Motivation | |
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| Staff Seniority | |
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| Bottom Line | |
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| Construx's Professional Development Program | |
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| Construx Knowledge Areas | |
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| Capability Levels | |
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| Professional Development Ladder Levels | |
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| Ladder-Based Career Progression | |
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| CKA Requirements at Different Capability Levels | |
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| Lessons Learned from the Professional Development Ladder | |
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| Benefits of the Professional Development Ladder | |
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| Using the Ladder Outside Construx | |
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| Industry Professionalism | |
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| Engineering a Profession | |
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| Need for Engineering | |
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| Engineering and Art | |
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| Maturation of Engineering Disciplines | |
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| A Science for Software Development | |
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| The Call of Engineering | |
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| Hard Knocks | |
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| Development of Professional Engineers | |
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| First Steps | |
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| Accreditation | |
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| Software Engineering or Software Engineering? | |
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| Polishing the Badge | |
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| Some Perspective | |
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| Stinking Badges | |
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| Certification | |
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| Licensing | |
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| Can Software Engineers Be Licensed? | |
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| Is Licensing a Bad Idea? | |
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| Bootstrap Licensing | |
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| Your Stake | |
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| Earning the Badge | |
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| Three Paths | |
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| Stinking Badges or an Iron Ring? | |
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| The Professional's Code | |
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| A Code for Coders | |
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| Benefits of the Code of Ethics | |
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| Coming of Age | |
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| Alchemy | |
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| Why Technology Transfer Is Needed | |
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| Diffusion of Innovation | |
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| The Chasm | |
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| Some Tough Questions | |
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| Where's the Risk? | |
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| County Extension Agents | |
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| The Humbling Nature of Progress | |
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| Index | |
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| About the Author | |
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| Software Profession Web Site | |