Edward Yourdon Bücher

IT-Projekte mit unrealistischen Zeitplänen und übersteigerten Budgets sind häufig und stellen eine enorme Belastung für Softwareentwickler dar. Oft sind diese Projekte von Anfang an zum Scheitern verurteilt. In solchen Situationen stellt sich die Frage, wie man überlebt, ohne Gesundheit, Würde und Verstand zu verlieren. Wichtige Aspekte sind die Fokussierung auf essentielle Software-Features, die Bereitschaft, Kompromisse einzugehen, und die Fähigkeit, sich gegen interne politische Spielchen zu behaupten. Gutes Zeitmanagement und moderne Konzepte wie xTreme Programming oder die Theory of Constraints können hilfreich sein. Zudem ist geschicktes Verhandeln entscheidend, um zusätzliche Zeit, Geld oder Ressourcen zu sichern. Ein zentraler Punkt ist auch die Frage, wann der richtige Zeitpunkt zum Ausstieg gekommen ist. Dieser Survival Guide bietet Denkanstöße und Ansätze, um sich selbst und das Projekt aus schwierigen Lagen zu befreien. Edward Yourdon ermutigt Projektleiter, Softwareentwickler und Manager, solche Herausforderungen zu meistern und gibt wertvolle Impulse für den Umgang mit Krisensituationen in der Softwareentwicklung.

Newly revised for 2001, this second edition of Richard Thayer's popular, bestselling book presents a top-down, practical view of managing a successful software engineering project. The book builds a framework for project management activities based on the planning, organizing, staffing, directing, and controlling model. Thayer provides information designed to help you understand and successfully perform the unique role of a project manager.This book is a must for all project managers in the software field. The text focuses on the five functions of general management by first describing each function and then detailing the project management activities that support each function. This second edition shows you how to manage a software development project, discusses current software engineering management methodologies and techniques, and presents general descriptions and project management problems. The book serves as a guide for your future project management activities. The text also offers students sufficient background and instructional material to serve as a main or supplementary text for a course in software engineering project management. The 2001 revision includes a new Chapter 4 Introduction and a new paper that replaces an older paper.

A valuable new approach to computer systems and program design, structured design is quickly becoming the standard industrial technique for significantly improving productivity, enhancing reliability, and lowering maintenance costs.

A software developer's guide to surviving projects that are almost sure to fail. It shows how to maximize the chances of success and how to make sure your career survives them. It covers the entire project life cycle, showing both managers and developers how to deal with the politics of "Death March" projects.

This highly respected guide to object-oriented programming has been updated to reflect the most recent advances in this still-evolving methodology. New material includes updated terminology; finding lasses and objects; defining attributes; defining services; object-oriented analysis and CASE; moving to object-oriented design. 7 x 9 1/4.

An overview of software engineering principles, techniques, and tools that draws some controversial conclusions as to the direction of software engineering and the career prospects of today's programmers. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.