Strategic Moves

Strategic Moves

Evolving software systems the smart way

About the Book

This guidebook is for companies aiming at a comprehensive modernization of their software systems in the fast-moving digital world. Markus Harrer delves into and illustrates around 60 strategic moves based on Simon Wardley's "Gameplays" to give companies new ideas for the development of their software systems and themselves. These are not short-term tactics, but long-term strategies for sustainable software evolution. The plays are used in particular to influence the market and thus to assert themselves against the competition.

Readers will get concrete ideas from the book and will be able to directly understand and apply the strategic moves themselves using concise real-world examples. The book is aimed at the roles of decision maker, executive, manager, software architect, lead engineer, and anyone who is responsible for the modernization of software systems. Prior knowledge of the subject area "Wardley Maps" is not necessary.

This book is a translation into English of Strategische Spielzüge which was originally written in German.

About the Author

Markus Harrer
Markus Harrer

Markus is a software engineer who’s passionate about improving the way we do software development. He specializes in the analysis of software data such as source code, application performance data or version control repositories to show the underlying problems of the symptoms we face on the surface.

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