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Software Development: Building Reliable Systems [Hardcover]

Marc Hamilton (Author)
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80% of software projects fail- this book tells you why the other 20% succeed!
"Top 10 reasons software is so hard to develop" -- and what you can do about it!
Covers people, processes, and technology.
How to recruit, retain and organize the industrys best development talent. Theres never been a more thorough, realistic guide to "what works" in software development -- and how to make it happen in your organization. In this book, a leading consultant presents the industrys best start-to-finish techniques for software development, covering all key elements of success- people, processes, and technology. Learn to build a winning software development team, organize for success, and retain your best talent in todays competitive hiring environment. Discover how to build a software architecture that maps to business goals -- and really can serve as a foundation for successful development. Learn how to implement superior O-O techniques from planning through testing. Identify better ways to use RAD, leverage standards; measure quality and productivity -- and improve them. Finally, discover proven ways to leverage todays hottest network- and component-based technologies.
Mark Hamilton has 16+ years of experience in large-scale software development. At TRW, he worked under mentors such as Dr. Barry Boehm, developer of the legendary "spiral" method. Now at Sun Microsystems in Los Angeles, he is a systems engineering manager helping enterprise customers design business-critical applications.
Series Editor Harris Kern was formerly Suns Data Center and System Administrator Manager in Milpitas, CA, and now supports marketing and sales for Sun worldwide. He implemented and supported Suns first 24x7 mission-critical UNIX production environment, and co-authored Building the New Enterprise (Sun Microsystems Press/Prentice Hall PTR).

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80% of software projects fail—here's why the other 20% succeed!

Software Development is the most thorough, realistic guide to "what works" in software development—and how to make it happen in your organization. Leading consultant Marc Hamilton tackles all three key components of successful development: people, processes, and technology.

From streamlining infrastructures to retraining programmers, choosing tools to implementing service-level agreements, Hamilton unifies all of today's best practices—in management, architecture, and software engineering. There's never been a more comprehensive blueprint for software success.

  • Discover "The Ten Commandments of Software Development"
  • Build a winning software development team, organize it for success - and retain your best talent
  • Create a software architecture that maps to business goals and serves as a foundation for successful development
  • Define processes that streamline component and Web-based development projects
  • Leverage the advantages of object-oriented techniques throughout the entire lifecycle
  • Make the most of Java, JavaBeans, and Jini technology
  • Learn the best ways to measure software quality and productivity—and improve them
Software Development is ruthlessly realistic and remarkably accessible—for managers and technical professionals alike. Best of all, its techniques can be applied to any project or organization, large or small. Ready to build software that meets all its goals? This book will get you there.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Out of date, out of synch, Nov 2 2002
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Rachel Tozier (Brea, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Software Development: Building Reliable Systems (Hardcover)
Besides being out of date, even for internal software dev groups, the contents of this book are plain out of synch with practices in any SW development environment.

The author wanders through people, process and technology with no clear purpose as far as I can tell, and the technology section is so outdated that it comes across as quaint.

Even the people and process sections are weak. Use the P-CMM to handle people issues, and pick any number of process approaches, from agile methods and extreme programming at one end, to the CMM at the other.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Best suited to internal IT/IS - technology section is weak, Oct 6 2002
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Mike Tarrani "Jazz Drummer" (Deltona, FL USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Software Development: Building Reliable Systems (Hardcover)
The excellent previous comments by Per Kisler and Linda Zarate sum up this book from a general software engineering perspective. The main value of this book, in my opinion, is that the material addresses internal IT/IS software development more than product-line development or software engineering environments.

If you are seeking guidance on organizing an MIS development group this book is an excellent resource, especially with respect to organization and processes. If your are more interested in development from a product-line or software engineering perspective I recommend "Successful Software Development" by Scott E. Donaldson and Stanley G. Siegel (ISBN 0130868264).

For MIS development this book benefits from the extensive experience of Harris Kern (who is the Enterprise Computing series editor of which this book is a part), and the focus in IT/IS organizational and process factors. In fact, this book is particularly strong in the way it integrates IT/IS operations and management organization and process with software development. I especially like the emphasis on people and process, but like others who have previously commented I feel that the parts of this book that address technology are weak and should be eliminated from any subsequent edition.

The sections on developer recruiting and retention are especially well done, and the issues and factors of integrating processes are discussed in detail, making this an invaluable resource for the right audience.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Overview of software development, July 29 2001
This review is from: Software Development: Building Reliable Systems (Hardcover)
Slightly outdated overview of nearly all aspects of software development with strong emphasis on Java. The book assumes no previous knowlegde of software engeneering and shows the reader step by step of what elements software development consists. The spectrum of topics spans a range from recruiting the right people to explaining the workings of CORBA. This wide range of topics implies not going very deep into each one. So one needs to read many additional books about each topic covered here. While dealing with Java and Jini the author could not forsee the new moves of Microsoft with it's .NET technology. So it would be interesting how the author would write about it today. Definitely outdated are the listings of software products, e.g. IDE's. Missing are a lot of necessary diagrams for showing how to modell, communicate or visualize the software development process. Overall the book serves as a handy introduction to software development, giving one the feeling, that one has now heard about all the relevant aspects involved in it.
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