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Synopsis
Don't flip the bozo bit.A" Get to a known state and stay there.A" When slipping, don't fall.A" These practical rules, and many others, are explained in this classic book- now back in print. The original edition of this book preceded agileA" software development and came before Scrum.A" In many ways, it was one of the first truly practical, hands-on books about working with and managing a software development team. In 1996, this was largely uncharted territory: most teams, even at large and mature corporations, were run by seat-of-the-pants methods. Academic resources about development processes were available, but understanding them was hard and applying them in the real world was harder. DYNAMICS OF SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT changed the game-and its insights are still relevant in the twenty-first-century world of Web services. Software developers learn the basic dynamics of the development process and the practical rules and best practices for enhancing team efficiency and effectiveness. This new edition includes a CD of the author's famous 21 RulesA" presentation. Now back in print and complete with a video presentation of the 21 Rules,A" this classic book illustrates how to enhance software development team efficiency and effectiveness by understanding the practical rules and dynamics of the software development process.
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McCarthy has distilled a veteran's hard-won know-how into 54 memorable, pragmatic maxims - short essays on defining, building, shipping, and marketing software successfully, whether commercially or in-house. With a grown-up wit that's by turns homespun and sophisticated, McCarthy tells you how to maintain your cool ("Don't Flip the Bozo Bit"), organize a crack team ("Get Their Heads into the Game"), analyze the customer and the competition ("Alone? A Market Without a Competitor Ain't"), handle uncertainty and schedule slips ("When You Slip, Don't Fall"), make commitments with integrity ("Be like the Doctors"), and stabilize the product so that you can ship it ("Don't Shake the Jell-O"). McCarthy shows you how to develop a marketing message and how to launch your product too, and in the appendix, he tells you how to hire smart people and keep them happy and productive. Along the way, McCarthy meditates on software aesthetics and familiar software development phenomena - the "death march to Egghead", burn-out, internecine quarrels, being lost in software, the software dream and successive awakenings, the self-critical customer. McCarthy's preoccupation with the dynamics of the process infected his brother, artist Patrick McCarthy, with a sense of the "rich, deep, psychocultural extravaganza" that is software development, and themes both humorous and dark emerge in the handsome illustrations for the book. You'll find Dynamics of Software Development as engrossing and exciting as software development itself. This book is destined to be read by software designers, developers, marketers, technical managers, and industry insiders for many years to come.
About the Author
Jim McCarthy has participated in the creation and shipping of numerous software products. He founded McCarthy Technologies in 1996, after product development and program management positions at Microsoft (where he led groups as large as 200, including managing development of Visual C++), the Whitewater Group, and Bell Laboratories. His hands-on laboratory is established for the study and teaching of high-performance teamwork, and in a controlled-simulation environment, challenges dozens of real-world, high-tech teams to produce and deliver a product. He is the author of Software for Your Head (Addison-Wesley, 2002).
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- PublisherWP Distribution Services Pvt Ltd
- Publication date2007
- ISBN 10 8178531135
- ISBN 13 9788178531137
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages200
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