The completely updated “field manual” for becoming a better software architect!

The crucial skills you need to survive and thrive as an enterprise software architect! Fully updated for the latest techniques-from lightweight methods and architectural layers to Model-Driven Architecture and UML 2.0!

In this book, Raphael Malveau and Thomas J. Mowbray share up-to-the-minute insights and practical solutions for all the key challenges of building enterprise software systems with objects, components, and Internet technologies. You’ll master today’s best technical and business practices for the entire project lifecycle as you discover how to avoid crucial pitfalls and costly errors.

With hands-on exercises, real-life war stories, and a take-no-prisoners attitude, Software Architect Bootcamp, Second Edition, won’t just help you become a great software architect: it’ll help you become a true technical leader of your organization.

The corporate market is now embracing free, “open source” software like never before, as evidenced by the recent success of the technologies underlying LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP). Each is the result of a publicly collaborative process among numerous developers who volunteer their time and energy to create better software.

The truth is, however, that the overwhelming majority of free software projects fail. To help you beat the odds, O’Reilly has put together Producing Open Source Software, a guide that recommends tried and true steps to help free software developers work together toward a common goal. Not just for developers who are considering starting their own free software project, this book will also help those who want to participate in the process at any level.

The book tackles this very complex topic by distilling it down into easily understandable parts. Starting with the basics of project management, it details specific tools used in free software projects, including version control, IRC, bug tracking, and Wikis. Author Karl Fogel, known for his work on CVS and Subversion, offers practical advice on how to set up and use a range of tools in combination with open mailing lists and archives. He also provides several chapters on the essentials of recruiting and motivating developers, as well as how to gain much-needed publicity for your project.

While managing a team of enthusiastic developers — most of whom you’ve never even met — can be challenging, it can also be fun. Producing Open Source Software takes this into account, too, as it speaks of the sheer pleasure to be had from working with a motivated team of free software developers.

Purchasing this book could change your future Recognize a good idea and gauge its chances Analyze and research your market Learn what investors look for in a business venture Make your planning pay Pick a winning team Know when to reach for ready-mades Effectively deal with blocks to success Keep the process on schedule Work within your budget Learn from winners Control the product launch Discover the secrets of keeping customers Hang on to your hard-earned profits Plan for future growth Creating successful software looks easy, and that is its initial appeal for many who attempt to do it. In truth, very few individuals who start off with a really bright idea ever reach the finish line successfully.
The reason is simple until now, no one had a logical road map to follow. Written by one of the most experienced entrepreneurs in the era of the Internet, this book steers you around the classic pitfalls. Ed Hasted explains what successful software pioneers have discovered, and how you too can overcome the many stumbling blocks. You don’t have to be a conceptual genius, programmer, accountant, researcher, statistician, manager, designer, marketer, and award-winning salesman combined to reach your goals. You just need to know which bits of professional wisdom should be used at each stage. Read this book as you begin your journey to software success. It will turn a complex process into common sense.

The new software management classic: in-the-trenches wisdom from legendary project leader Joe Marasco

Over
the course of a distinguished career, Joe Marasco earned a reputation
as the go-to software project manager: the one to call when you were
facing a brutally tough, make-or-break project. Marasco reflected on
his experiences in a remarkable series of “Franklin’s Kite” essays for The Rational Edge,
Rational and IBM’s online software development magazine. Now, Marasco
collects and updates those essays, bringing his unique insights (and
humor) to everything from modeling to scheduling, team dynamics to
compensation. The result: a new classic that deserves a place alongside
Frederick Brooks’ The Mythical Man-Month in the library of
every developer and software manager. If you want to ship products
you’re proud of… ship on time and on budget… deliver real customer
value… you simply must read
Highlights include
How software projects resemble other projects�and how they’re different
The iterative problem-solving clock: ending the day with real solutions
The realities of scheduling: How late are you going to be?
Trade-offs, estimating, project rhythm, and getting products out the door
Understanding what you’re seeing, hearing, and feeling as a software manager
The human element: politics, negotiation, compensation, culture, and growth
Avoiding crises before they happen… and mitigating them when they do
Thinking laterally: original ideas in software project management

Sustainable Software Development brings together principles
and practices for building software that is technically superior,
delivers exceptional business value, and can evolve rapidly to reflect
any change to your business or technical environment.

Kevin
Tate shows how to eliminate practices that make development
unsustainable and replaces these practices with a sustainable approach
that draws on the best ideas from both agile and conventional
development. Tate demonstrates how to balance rapid releases and
long-term sustainability, achieving both rich functionality and
superior quality. You’ll learn how to build a development organization
that is more productive and can continually improve its capability to
handle complexity and change.

Writing for developers, architects, project leaders, and other software team members, Tate shows how to:

• Take control of your development environment, so you can outship your
  competitors, leveraging new technologies and responding to new business
  opportunities

• Maintain a consistent pace that optimally balances short- versus long-term requirements

• Keep your code base in a “near-shippable” state between releases

• Prevent defects, rather than just recognizing and fixing them

• Invest continually and cost-effectively in software design improvements

• Leverage the fundamentals of the craft of software development

• Integrate sustainable processes with Agile and traditional methodologies

Implementing the IEEE Software Engineering Standards is a practical and professional guide to implementing the IEEE Software Engineering standards in your software development process. There are 39 complex standards involved, some more critical than others. This book explains where to start, which standards to implement first, and how to integrate them into your current software development process. The book presents a realistic Software Life-Cycle Model to complement the standards and aid development. One of the book’s biggest benefits is that it helps software engineers reconcile some latest “best practices” such as rapid prototyping and use of CASE tools with use of the standards.

There is more to “object-oriented” than application programming. Object-oriented methods have revolutionized the way analysts, designers, software engineers, project managers, and tool builders construct entire software systems.

Object-Oriented System Development will help you to better understand the role of analysis and design in the object-oriented development process. Rather than subscribing to a particular object-oriented method, this book gives step-by-step instructions on how to put key object-oriented concepts to work in software construction. Many examples, including a full banking system, are developed throughout the book to illustrate the process of object-oriented software development from analysis, through design, and into implementation.

Although geared to software professionals involved in the development of medium, large, and distributed systems, Object-Oriented System Development is equally valuable to anyone who wants to gain a detailed technical perspective on the object-oriented software development process.

Aimed at developers and IT managers alike, Software Project Management in Practice
offers an invaluable guide to using lightweight software processes in
real projects. Filled with sample documents, this book can benefit any
organization seeking to improve the ways it manages software.

In an
era of ever tighter schedules, implementing a serious software process
becomes even more difficult. This book ventures a simple argument: that
the techniques for software process management used by InfoSys (a
company with a “mature” software process) can be applied to other
organizations. Packed with sample documents drawn from real projects,
this book is also notable for its clear presentation and the absence of
the theoretical and jargon-laden prose that can be found in many
software engineering texts.

The author first looks at how to
assess a company’s software process using the Capability Maturity Model
(CMM) and other schemes. Surprisingly, the tools at InfoSys (which earn
high CMM marks) are not fancy case tools, but databases, spreadsheets,
and Microsoft Project files. Its software process database, for
example, allows new projects to reuse existing documents and expertise.
After an overview of the modified waterfall model software process used
at InfoSys, the author looks at techniques for estimating the size and
scope of projects. Then it’s on to quality planning. A consistent theme
here is that metrics and statistical process control (SPC) should be
used to track defects. The book then covers risk assessment and the
structure of teams. A standout section on configuration management
outlines the role for preserving builds and project documents at each
stage of the game.

Later sections examine the actual
implementation and deployment of software. The author’s argument for
peer review of code is a strong one. He details strategies for running
design and code reviews (if even by a single person) to catch defects
and improper designs, as well as tips for overcoming resistance to such
practices.

Sample defect tracking and status for projects also
gets its due. Sample documents (using spreadsheets and even the layout
of disk directories) to store project information show that a simple
approach can yield productive results. The author then shows how to
analyze the patterns of defects in software, including how to use
statistical techniques to spot out-of-control projects. The book closes
with the ways in which a project postmortem (or “project closure
analysis”) can be used to spot what went wrong and to improve things
the next time around.

As a co-founder of Symbian and former executive of Psion Software, David Wood has been actively involved in well over 100 smartphone development projects worldwide. Over the time spent on these projects, he has come to understand the key issues which determine the difference between successful and unsuccessful projects for Symbian OS. This book highlights and explains: How to tame the awesome inner complexity of smartphone technology Optimal project team organisation, combining agility and reliability The design and the philosophy behind key features of Symbian OS The potential trouble spots of smartphone integration, testing, and optimisation How to receive the full benefit of the diverse skills in the extensive Symbian partner ecosystem The methods that are most likely to deliver commercial success when using Symbian OS The wider significance of Symbian OS skills and expertise in the evolving mobile marketplace The particular importance of software leaders in bringing breakthrough smartphone products to the market

by Theo Pavlidis

Hardcover: 384 pages

Publisher: Springer; 1 edition (April 1, 1999)

Language: English

ISBN: 0306460653