Software Development and Game Theory

July 23, 2008 – 5:00 am

Alistair Cockburn (pronounced co-burn) maintains that software development is a cooperative game.

Others have described software development as exactly the opposite, a game where the participants do not cooperate - see Analyzing Software Development as a Noncooperative Game (pdf).

I think I’m with Alistair on this one while the alternative point of view is interesting I think their argument is somewhat flawed.

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