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The short answer is: yes it does. And I have some arsenal to back up this statement. Plenty of reasons can be found in the pages of The Difference: How the Power of Diversity Creates Better Groups, Firms, Schools, and Societies by University of Michigan professor Scott Page. Page makes a compelling case that diversity is useful because it enhances a group’s ability to tackle hard problems and make accurate predictions. Could software development possibly benefit from such enhancement? You bet. You don’t have to take my word for it though. Read the book. Or read my latest IEEE Software column, titled Diversity and Software Development on why that should be so. And let me know what you think…

Back in March, I gave a presentation to the IEEE Student Chapter at the Université du Québec à Montreal on publishing software engineering articles in peer-reviewed venues.  In that presentation, I talked about the common sins prospective authors commit when trying to get a technical article accepted by a peer-reviewed publication. This post gives a synopsis of those sins.

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