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The first and most critical decision we (or an enterprise) will make is in defining and embracing a starting point for our approach to product development. At the software project level, when organizing the user’s requests, examining the available technology and converging on an approach, at some point the leader(s) must commit and begin the effort.

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  1. Gamma, Helm, Johnson, and Vlissides identified the most powerful and pervasive object-based reusable patterns (creational, structural, and behavioral) and gave them standardized terms and context in Design Patterns, Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software (Addison-Wesley, 1995).

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Birmingham, D.C., Perry, V.H. (2002). The Starting Point. In: Software Development on a Leash. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-1147-1_1

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