Succeeding with Objects: Decision Frameworks for Project Management - Hardcover

Goldberg, Adele; Rubin, Kenneth S.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0201628783 ISBN 13: 9780201628784

Publisher: Addison Wesley, 1995

Synopsis

This invaluable guide clearly outlines the necessary decisions and issues to consider before employing objects for software development projects. It is filled with practical advice distilled from the authors' extensive experience in the creation and use of object technology: advice covering all aspects of programming languages, development tools, and methods for analysis and design. Recognizing differences in culture and in long- and short-term goals among organizations, the authors observe that no single prescription will work everywhere. To be sure, the authors can-and do-make generally applicable recommendations, and tie these recommendations to the conditions under which they have seen success and failure. But their principal aim is to create a structure that will enable readers to develop their own coherent-and successful-management plans.

About this title

About the Author

About Adele Goldberg

Adele Goldberg is Chairman and Founder of ParcPlace Systems, Inc., a major vendor of software development systems based on object-oriented technology. Before founding ParcPlace, she spent 14 years as laboratory manager and researcher at Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, and authored the seminal books on the Smalltalk-80 programming system. Dr. Goldberg received the ACM 1987 Systems Software Award and PC Magazine's 1990 Lifetime Achievement Award for her significant contributions to the personal computer industry. She is Past President and a Fellow of the ACM.

Kenneth S. Rubin is Manager of Methodology Department at ParcPlace Systems Inc., where he leads the creation of the Object Behavior Analysis method and tools products. As a former manager of ParcPlace Professional Services Department, he directed the company's consulting and training business. Mr. Rubin has over 10 years' experience consulting with and managing software development projects that have successfully applied object-oriented technology.

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From the Back Cover

This book is written to teach technical managers how to be successful in the use of object-oriented technology. It contains the author's advice, distilled form 20 years of direct experience in the creation and use of the technology and of all aspects of programming languages, development tools and methods for analysis and design. Goldberg and Rubin describe how to construct a prescription for what an organization including its managers, developers, support teams and customers---should do for success in using object-oriented technology, examining the decisions that must be made, the issues affecting the decision-making process, and providing examples derived from project case studies.

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Edition details

• Publisher: Addison Wesley
• Publication date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0201628783
• ISBN 13: 9780201628784
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 576