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Steve McConnell

Achieving Leaner Software

IEEE Software, Vol. 14, No. 6, November/December 1997

Software developers and managers claim that they understand the benefits of keeping their software simple, but industry reports indicate otherwise. Developers, managers, marketers, and end-users continue to stuff so many features into already-bloated products that one of the elders of the software industry has publicly pleaded for leaner software (Niklaus Wirth, "A Plea for Lean Software," IEEE Computer, February 1995).

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