Software Development: Building Reliable Systems (Enterprise Computing Series) - Softcover

Hamilton, Marc

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0130812463 ISBN 13: 9780130812469

Publisher: Prentice Hall, 1999

Synopsis

There's never been a more thorough, realistic guide to "what works" in software development -- and how to make it happen in your organization. In this book, a leading consultant presents the industry's best start-to-finish techniques for software development, covering all key elements of success: people, processes, and technology. Learn to build a winning software development team, organize for success, and retain your best talent in today's competitive hiring environment. Discover how to build a software architecture that maps to business goals -- and really can serve as a foundation for successful development. Learn how to implement superior O-O techniques from planning through testing. Identify better ways to use RAD, leverage standards; measure quality and productivity -- and improve them. Finally, discover proven ways to leverage today's hottest network- and component-based technologies.

About this title

About the Author

Mark Hamilton has 16+ years of experience in large-scale software development. At TRW, he worked under mentors such as Dr. Barry Boehm, developer of the legendary "spiral" method. Now at Sun Microsystems in Los Angeles, he is a systems engineering manager helping enterprise customers design business-critical applications.

Series Editor Harris Kern was formerly Sun's Data Center and System Administrator Manager in Milpitas, CA, and now supports marketing and sales for Sun worldwide. He implemented and supported Sun's first 24x7 mission-critical UNIX production environment, and co-authored Building the New Enterprise (Sun Microsystems Press/Prentice Hall PTR).

From the Back Cover

80% of software projects fail―here's why the other 20% succeed!

Software Development is the most thorough, realistic guide to "what works" in software development―and how to make it happen in your organization. Leading consultant Marc Hamilton tackles all three key components of successful development: people, processes, and technology.

From streamlining infrastructures to retraining programmers, choosing tools to implementing service-level agreements, Hamilton unifies all of today's best practices―in management, architecture, and software engineering. There's never been a more comprehensive blueprint for software success.

• Discover "The Ten Commandments of Software Development"
• Build a winning software development team, organize it for success - and retain your best talent
• Create a software architecture that maps to business goals and serves as a foundation for successful development
• Define processes that streamline component and Web-based development projects
• Leverage the advantages of object-oriented techniques throughout the entire lifecycle
• Make the most of Java, JavaBeans, and Jini technology
• Learn the best ways to measure software quality and productivity―and improve them

Software Development is ruthlessly realistic and remarkably accessible―for managers and technical professionals alike. Best of all, its techniques can be applied to any project or organization, large or small. Ready to build software that meets all its goals? This book will get you there.

Edition details

• Publisher: Prentice Hall
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0130812463
• ISBN 13: 9780130812469
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 400