Adaptive Software Development: A Collaborative Approach to Managing Complex Systems - Softcover

Highsmith, James A.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0932633404 ISBN 13: 9780932633408

Publisher: Dorset House Publishing Co Inc.,U.S., 2000

Synopsis

In today's turbulent e-business world, software project teams that survive and thrive won't be those that continue their traditions of optimization, efficiency, and control, but those that exhibit adaptability, speed, and collaboration. Adaptive Software Development is targeted at software teams where competition creates extreme pressure on the delivery process.

Four goals of the book are

* to support an adaptive culture in which change and uncertainty are assumed to be the natural state

* to introduce frameworks to guide the iterative process of managing change

* to institute collaboration, the interaction of people on interpersonal, cultural, and structural levels

* to add rigor and discipline to the RAD approach, making it scalable to the uncertainty and complexity of real-world undertakings.

This innovative text, grounded in the science of complex adaptive systems theory, offers a practical, realistic approach to managing the high-speed, high-change projects characteristic of our highly uncertain economy.

About this title

Synopsis:

Offers a theory for software development management that suggests an adaptive culture in which change and uncertainty are assumed to be the natural state, as opposed to the conventional belief that optimization is the only solution to increasingly complex problems. The approach combines customer focus groups, versioning, time-boxed management, and

About this edition

• Publisher: Dorset House Publishing Co Inc.,U.S.
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0932633404
• ISBN 13: 9780932633408
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 358