Roaming Free: The Power of Reading Beyond Your Field
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A claim that reading outside software changes practice: structured OOA/UML training gives way to agile methods after finding David Billington’s July 2000 article and Henry Petroski’s books, which show bridge and engineering design full of iteration and experiment rather than predictable top‑down planning. The timeline matters — the insight builds over about 15 years in the making — and the concrete result is treating software development more like iterative, test‑driven engineering informed by aerospace, mechanical and civil case studies.
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