Название: Software Development Pearls: Lessons from Fifty Years of Software Experience (Final)
Автор: Karl Wiegers
Издательство: Pearson/Addison-Wesley
Год: 2022
Страниц: 331
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf (true), epub
Размер: 16.2 MB, 10.2 MB

Accelerate Your Pursuit of Software Excellence by Learning from Others' Hard-Won Experience.

Experience is a powerful teacher, but it's also slow and painful. You can't afford to make every mistake yourself! Software Development Pearls helps you improve faster and bypass much of the pain by learning from others who already climbed the learning curves. Drawing on 25+ years helping software teams succeed, Karl Wiegers has crystallized 60 concise, practical lessons for all your projects, regardless of your role, industry, technology, or methodology.

Wiegers's insights and specific recommendations cover six crucial elements of success: requirements, design, project management, culture and teamwork, quality, and process improvement. For each, Wiegers offers First Steps for reflecting on your own experiences before you start; detailed Lessons with core insights, real case studies, and actionable solutions; and Next Steps for planning adoption in your project, team, or organization. This is knowledge you weren't taught in college or boot camp. It can boost your performance as a developer, business analyst, quality professional, or manager.

Clarify requirements to gain a shared vision and understanding of your real problem
Create robust designs that implement the right functionality and quality attributes and can evolve
Anticipate and avoid ubiquitous project management pitfalls
Grow a culture in which behaviors actually align with what people claim to value
Plan realistically for quality and build it in from the outset
Use process improvement to achieve desired business results, not as an end in itself
Choose your next steps to get full value from all these lessons

"Wouldn't it be great to gain a lifetime's experience without having to pay for the inevitable errors of your own experience? Karl Wiegers is well versed in the best techniques of business analysis, software engineering, and project management.You'll gain concise but important insights into how to recover from setbacks as well as how to avoid them in the first place." -- Meilir Page-Jones, Senior Business Analyst, Wayland Systems Inc.

This book presents fifty-nine lessons about software development and management, grouped into six domains, with one chapter on each domain:
Chapter 2. Requirements
Chapter 3. Design
Chapter 4. Project management
Chapter 5. Culture and teamwork
Chapter 6. Quality
Chapter 7. Process improvement
Chapter 8 provides one final, general lesson to keep in mind as you move forward. For easy reference, all sixty lessons are collected in the Appendix.