Books Guide: Software Engineering

The target of SQL tuning is the improvement of the existing execution plan. The authors discuss the removal of brakes in the execution plan. Such "brakes" or bottlenecks can be recognized by a formal analysis of the execution plan. For this purpose no data model knowledge is needed. This is especially beneficial for database administrators because they are usually not or insufficiently familiar with the data model.

The Certified Function Point Specialist Examination Guide provides a complete and authoritative review of the rules and guidelines prescribed in the release of version 4.3 of the Function Point Counting Practices Manual (CPM). Providing a fundamental understanding of the IFPUG Functional Size Measurement method, this is the ideal study guide for the CFPS examination. The text:

In this book, leading thinkers such as Steve McConnell, Barry Boehm, and Barbara Kitchenham offer essays that uncover the truth and unmask myths commonly held among the software development community.

In Patterns-Based Engineering, two leading experts bring together true best practices for developing and deploying successful software-intensive systems.

Get ready for a more robust approach to project management--one that recognizes the project environment and adapts accordingly. This resource first introduces you to the tools, templates, and processes that you'll need in your toolkit. You'll then explore five different project management life cycle (PMLC) models for managing a project: Linear, Incremental, Iterative, Adaptive, and Extreme. Along the way, you'll find step-by-step guidance on how to apply each technique.

Maintaining compatibility among all affected network and application interfaces of modern enterprise systems can quickly become costly and overwhelming. This handbook presents the knowledge and practical experience of a global group of experts from varying disciplines to help you plan and implement enterprise integration projects that respond to business needs quickly and are seamless to business users.

This book is about a new way of approaching process improvement for engineering development. Process improvement is a generally well-understood and accepted means of achieving quality and productivity gains for software development, and the recognition of its importance for other engineering disciplines is growing. The success and wide adoption of the Capability Maturity Model for Softwareâ has led to increased development of similar models in disciplines other than software.

Richard Hopkins and Kevin Jenkins explain why accumulated business and IT complexity is the root cause of large-scale project failure and show how to overcome that complexity "one bite of the elephant at a time." You'll learn how to manage every phase of the Brownfield project, leveraging breakthrough collaboration, communication, and visualization tools--including Web 2.0, semantic software engineering, model-driven development and architecture, and even virtual worlds.

This book describes an approach to software management based on establishing an infrastructure that serves as the foundation for the project. This infrastructure defines people roles, necessary technology, and interactions between people and technology. This infrastructure automates repetitive tasks, organizes project activities, tracks project status, and seamlessly collects project data to provide measures necessary for decision making.

A successful Six Sigma business strategy provides a suite of cross-functional and vertically aligned metrics that lead to significant improvements in customer satisfaction and the bottom line. At first glance, Six Sigma may seem in direct competition with SEI's Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI®). However, with its domain-specific approach to improving the engineering process, CMMI offers the process infrastructure that is fundamental to effective Six Sigma strategy.

Software is easy to make, except when you want it to do something new, Rosenberg observes -- but the catch is that "the only software worth making is software that does something new." This two-tiered insight comes from years of observing a team led by Mitch Kapor (the creator of the Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheet) in its efforts to create a "personal information manager" that can handle to-do lists as easily as events scheduling and address books.

In Search of Stupidity: Over Twenty Years of High-Tech Marketing Disasters, Second Edition is National Lampoon meets Peter Drucker. It's a funny and well-written business book that takes a look at some of the most influential marketing and business philosophies of the last twenty years. Through the dark glass of hindsight, it provides an educational and entertaining look at why these philosophies didn't work for many of the country's largest and best-known high-tech companies.

AntiPatterns: Identification, Refactoring, and Management catalogs 48 bad management practices and environments common to software development, IT, and other organizations. The authors cover antipatterns of management, along with environmental/cultural antipatterns and personality antipatterns/phenotypes. Through the classification of these harmful practices, you will be able to identify problems in your own work environment, and take action to correct them.

Get a handle on skyrocketing software costs. Are your software costs spiraling out of control? Do your projects chronically run late, exceed budget, and go out the door bug-laden, if at all? Have you discovered a commercial software cost estimating tool that works for your situation? Are you even familiar with how these increasingly sophisticated tools operate?

A breakthrough approach to managing Agile software development . . . Agile methods might just be the alternative to outsourcing. However, Agile development must scale in scope and discipline to be acceptable in the boardrooms of the Fortune 1000. In "Agile Management for Software Engineering," David J.

This ground-breaking professional reference integrates converging views of e-business processes and offers ways to manage their inherent risks with advanced modeling techniques.

Maximizing ROI on Software Development explains how to execute best quality software development and testing while maximizing business value.

It discusses Applied ROI in the context of methodologies such as Agile and Extreme Programming, and traditional methodologies including Six Sigma, the Capability Maturity Model® (CMM®), Total Cost of Ownership (TCO), and Product Line Models (PLM). T

Many people are confused about corrective action. They know it's a requirement for compliance to standards like ISO 9001. In some cases, the mandate is imposed by their customers or by regulatory agencies. What people often don't understand is what the requirement actually entails.

The easy, complete guide to statistical methods for software project management and process improvement.

From the Back Cover: The practice of building software is a "new kid on the block" technology. To those who have been in this field for all of their professional careers, it may not seem that way. But in the overall scheme of professions, software builders are relative “newbies.” In the short history of the software field, a lot of facts have been identified, and a lot of fallacies promulgated. Those facts and fallacies are what this book is about.

In Legacy Systems: Transformation Strategies, you'll discover exactly how to maximize the business value of legacy systems as you build the flexible, high-value, component-based architectures you need to stay competitive.

Software Configuration Management Patterns alleviates software engineers' most common concerns about software configuration management (SCM)--perceived rigidity and an overemphasis on process. This book demonstrates how effective SCM strategies promote a healthy, team-oriented culture that produces better software. Through the use of patterns, the authors show that properly managed workflow can avert delays, morale problems, and cost overruns. The patterns approach illustrates how SCM can be easily and successfully applied in small- to mid-sized organizations. By learning how these patterns relate to each other, readers can avoid common mistakes that too often result in frustrated developers and reduced productivity. Key coverage includes instruction on how to: develop the next version of a product while fixing problems with the current one; develop code in parallel with others and join up with the current state of code line; identify what versions of code went into a particular component; analyze where a change happened in the history of a component's development; use current tools more effectively, and decide when to use a manual process; introduce good practices into individual workspaces and throughout the organization; identify crucial aspects of the software process, so that team projects can run smoothly; build and foster a development environment focused on producing optimal teamwork and quality products.

Contrary to popular opinion, you can build extraordinarily high-quality software—and this book shows you exactly how the world's best development organizations do it.

In this book, Bob Glass has assembled a fascinating collection of stories about computing companies, projects, and products that failed. While the stories are interesting in their own right, the importance of learning from these failures is underscored by the fact that the world economy has become increasingly dependent on computer technology.

This book is a brief, eight-chapter paperback book containing multiple authors’ thoughts about management issues involved in system life cycles.

The award-winning book on software strategy for managers--now in paperback! Roger Pressman, best-selling computer author and internationally recognized consultant, uses clear, conversational language and real-world examples to explain what software engineering means for managers as their roles change to include more technical responsibilities.

The book presents a well-balanced view of, and approach to, improving the software development process. The book looks at two sides of software engineering improvement: what kills and what helps. It's a must-read book for those who want to improve the way they build software and manage projects. The book is particularly suitable for software process engineers, quality assurance officers, and project managers.

The author provides a wide range of examples about computers, and the associated weaknesses that we have not been able to overcome. The book highlights the extent to which computers control our environment and our lives, and the consequent risks. The accounts provided in the book are interesting and varied--most people will benefit from this illuminating exposé. Stories about airplanes, medical equipment, banking, Y2K, and others will captivate you until you reach the last chapter.

This book provides an in-depth means for software engineers to improve their own practice of software engineering. A variety of small projects are designed to lead the reader to identify specific ways their own work can benefit from process improvement based on measurement and statistical analyses.

From the preface: The book is based on a collection of mishaps and oddities relating to computer technology. It considers what has gone wrong in the past, what is likely to go wrong in the future, and what can be done to minimize the occurrence of further problems.

This is a handy collection of pithy quotations about computers: advice, put-downs, off-the-mark predictions, and other snippets from experts such as Steve Jobs, Ted Nelson, Thomas J. Watson, George Bush, and Duckman. 

Most of this book is based on what the authors describe as unusually candid interviews with thirty-eight senior microsoft employees and the analysis of several thousand pages of confidential internal documents and project data. The book has high praise for Microsoft's approach to product development and team management, which they describe as the synch-and-stabilize process. The book devotes one chapter to each of seven strategies that the authors view as characterizing how Microsoft works.

The author of the award-winning Writing Solid Code takes a compelling look at the people who develop the code and the group dynamics behind the scenes. Steve Maguire draws on his real-world experiences at Microsoft for candid accounts of how he brought together and maintained effective teams to develop timely, high-quality commercial applications.

Inside RAD takes you into the workaday world of building applications in a rapid but controlled fashion. It describes the mechanics behind the process and illustrates their application through a project diary. Each day of the diary describes real-world problems and how they are addressed.

This handbook summarizes more than 50 of the major problems of building and maintaining software projects, and outlines the prevention/control "therapies" available. It considers in depth the software-related risks in the domains of methodologies, tools, organization structures, skills and specialization, client relations, and sociological issues.

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This book presents, in clear and sometimes entertaining language, a basic background useful for understanding software. It explains why we should be cautious about introducing software into systems, and suggests criteria we might use to evaluate proposals to do so.

Based on the late Dr. Perry Gluckman's personal experience as a consultant implementing the theories of W. Edwards Deming, this book brings you into the lives of six people who put themselves on the front line of the battle for quality improvement. The stories tell experiences of people who work in America's companies, from top executives to line workers.

Using a rigorous, technical approach, the book is written by a leader in the field who has developed his own object-oriented design techniques. It covers object-oriented design of software. The book discusses requirements analysis, design, and principles that can be applied for all types of software: large, extremely complex, and real-time systems.

This book is one of the first to apply object-oriented techniques to the whole software lifecycle. It describes a complete development environment (Objectory) for the development of large software systems with an object-oriented approach.

This edition of the author's popular book on CASE (Computer-Aided Software Engineering) addresses the entire software development cycle. The book provides information on every key aspect of automated software engineering.

Any book that Yourdon works on belongs in the library of a practicing software engineer. The book is aimed at the practicing systems analyst tackling real-world projects. The book can be read and understood easily by managers, testers, and quality assurance people as well.

This is a short paperback describing some big computer failures, mostly drawn from Datamation.