Sustainable Dual-Track Development

Every decade or so, the software development community reinvents itself to address the dominant problems of the day. Agile methods reacted against slow, bureaucratic, documentation driven development. The next big shift reacts against unsustainable development practices. This book advances dual-track development as a unifying framework for the best way of designing great products (user-centered design), the best way of delivering software efficiently (agile methods), and strategies for balancing present and future needs (sustainable development). This book does not just recommend practices. It explains how to implement practices and the surprising science behind the practices, in an approachable, sometimes cheeky style. You won't find a "Dual-track Master" telling you that you must do it exactly this way, otherwise you're a sellout. Rather, this book describes a set of sociotechnical tools and gives advice for adapting these tools to your unique context. Welcome to the future of software engineering that you actually want: one that embraces clean code, hyper-productive programming, belongingness, empathy, environmental sustainability, economic feasibility, pro-social impact, and organizational justice.