Historical errata for The Nature of Software Development

On the first page of chapter 11 (I was just looking at the sample PDF on the product page), there’s a “dont’’” with two apostrophes.

simpicity

2nd to last sentence in the Preface. Don’t you guys use spell checkers?!

In the Introduction, 1st paragraph after “We will wander off the path”, the word “always” is missing the ‘s’.

Page 17/18 of the document (it is page 1 and 2 of Chap 1)

The paragraphs should be in the same top-to-bottom order of the illustration.

In the first paragraph, last sentence, the words “next time” are repeated. It should say, “We didn’t get there last time, but next time, we’ll get it right.”

First paragraph, first sentence, the word “alway” should be “always”. It should say, “Even though we much prefer to be on the grass than in the lava, it seems that we always get in the lava.”

In the fifth paragraph, second sentence, you have “delivers” when it should be “deliver”. It should say, “It’s easier to manage and deliver value sooner.”

In the second paragraph, second sentence, the word “see” is repeated. It should say, “Everyone needs to see the actual progress.”

After the last paragraph, there appears to be some markup that was not rendered properly into a reference to another section of the book. It looks like, “{#valueWant}” should have been turned into an internal link.

In the discussion of value being “what you want”, I usually take a slightly different point of view. A value is something for which you act to gain and/or keep. In other words, a value is more than something you want, or a longing for something. It is something you will actually get off your butt for in order to have.

The format of the numbered list is unreadable.

I’m usin aldiko as reader of the epub format on my nexus 7 (2012).

In the fourth paragraph, last sentence, the end of the sentence should be “those features.”. It should say, “We decide to choose our next features based on the number of lives saved by those features.”

In the first paragraph, first sentence, the word “cycle” should be “cycles”. It should say,“At first, when we set out to build a complete but tiny product in easy small cycles, things will go badly.”

missing link valueWant in chapter 7 (page number made up there are no pages in kindle)

Consider whether the check marks on the drawings in chapter 7 should be there. I suspect not. (Page number made up)

From Leonardo: In chapter 4 there is a picture with the subtitle: Feature teams avoid more difficult “scaling”.

This phrase seems dubious, it gave me an impression at first read that a feature team would run away from scaling if it is difficult, instead of having the property of reducing the difficulty of scaling as I think it was the intention.

I’m not sure when you include the contents of the Bibliography in your production process, but at the moment it is empty. Perhaps my interpretation of “final draft complete and heading to production” is wrong but I was surprised to find nothing in the bibliography.

pqractice should be practice

“We’re be” could be changed to “We’re going to be” or “We’ll be” in paragraph 2

pqractice -> practice

pqractice -> practice

“This skill can be developed,
however, and the repeated pqractice of choosing the features
for the next iteration is the best way to develop that skill.”

pqractice should be practice

“This skill can be developed, however, and the repeated pqractice of choosing the features for the next iteration is the best way to develop that skill.”

There’s a typo in the word “practice”.