Outside-in Software Development: A Practical Approach to Building Successful Stakeholder-based Products -- Chapter 1, Introducing Outside-in Development

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Build software that delivers maximum business value to every key stakeholder. Imagine your ideal development project. It will deliver exactly what your clients need. It will achieve broad, rapid, enthusiastic adoption. And it will be designed and built by a productive, high-morale team of expert software professionals. Using this book's breakthrough "outside-in" approach to software development, your next project can be that ideal project.

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Software Development, two of IBM's most respected software leaders, Carl Kessler and John Sweitzer, show you how to identify the stakeholders who'll determine your project's real value, shape every decision around their real needs, and deliver software that achieves broad, rapid, enthusiastic adoption. The authors present an end-to-end framework and practical implementation techniques any development team can quickly benefit from, regardless of project type or scope. Using their proven approach, you can improve the effectiveness of every client conversation, define priorities with greater visibility and clarity, and make sure all your code delivers maximum business value.

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Full title is: "Outside-in Software Development: A Practical Approach to Building Successful Stakeholder-based Products" by Carl Kessler and John Sweitzer; Copyright 2008 by International Business Machines Corporation. All rights reserved. Published by IBM Press, September, 2007. www.ibmpressbooks.com; isbn: 0131575511