Simplistic, states the obvious, highly redundant

Based on the reviews, I had high hopes for this book especially because I knew nothing of Software Communication Management.

The book is highly repetitive and very often state the obvious (test your code, do not wait until the last minute to check in your code, etc...). It is not completely devoid of content but the book in itself could be summarized in 2 pages. It would be fine if it was $10 but at $50 you simply expect a little bit more than text rephrased page after page, and as you read you really have the impression that they were under pressure from the editor to reach a minimum number of page (the book is still very short with about 200 pages, a large font and a lot of blanks). I was expecting detailed concrete examples of configurations at work and not simplistic stories such as "I was at this company, we froze the code before releasing it, everybody started blaming each other", end of story). There is virtually no in depth content in this book at all.

The book is from 2003 and provides a short outdated review of revision software tools in an annex (however it does not even review SVN!).

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