Managing Software for Growth

Without Fear, Control, and the Manufacturing Mindset

Roy Miller

174 pages, parution le 30/09/2003

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Résumé

The IT professional's guide to delivering exceptional software development projects.

One of the biggest problems facing businesses today is the effective delivery of software development projects. Recent surveys show that almost 75% of software development projects are either over budget, late, undeliverable, or cancelled outright. After more than 30 years of making software in an increasingly global economy dominated by technology, why is creating software still so hard?

Software development expert Roy Miller answers this and other questions in Managing Software for Growth, the first truly insightful guide for industry observers and IT leaders who struggle to make great software despite the challenges. Contents include:

The nature of the beast—why software projects fail, and what to do about it
How rigor, formalism, and "science" have created barriers to software development
Chaos, complexity, and emergence in complex adaptive systems
Moving beyond the "manufacturing mindset," which makes no sense for software
Practical advice on how to start growing software

From philosophical evaluations of software engineering to nuts-and-bolts realism, Miller reveals the inner workings of the software development process in a way that will change the way people think about IT. Software development needs radical change to meet the challenges of the new century. For anyone involved in the process of software creation, Managing Software for Growth can help begin that process.

Manufacturing Software
- The Manufacturing Mindset
- The Way We Think
- Different Work
- Square Pegs in Round Holes
Complexity
- Making A Mess
- Order for Free
- Muddling Through
Growing Software
- Growing Software
- The Lost Art of Conversation
Change
- Thinking Differently
- Losing Control
- Managing Uncertainty
- Starting Projects
- Finishing Projects
- Catalysts
- A Regular Lead Bullet
- Agility
- Tomorrow

Caractéristiques techniques

	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Addison Wesley
Auteur(s)	Roy Miller
Parution	30/09/2003
Nb. de pages	174
Format	15 x 22,5
Couverture	Broché
Poids	315g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780321117434