Journey of the software professional
Subtitle: a sociology of software development
By: Luke Hohmann ; [foreword by Gerald M. Weinberg]
Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Upper Saddle River, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 449
ISBN-13: 9780132366137
Subjects: Development; Soziologie; Softwareentwicklung; Computer software
Description: Crammed with advice for both developers and managers, Journey of the Software Professional covers an extraordinary range of topics - and presents them through a coherent Structure-Process-Outcome framework that helps you make sense of your own experience. You'll discover tools and techniques for building and implementing you own career development plan. You'll learn the concepts underlying well-designed system architectures and how to apply these concepts to create an architecture appropriate for your project. At the same time, you'll learn how to create organizational structures that support this architecture and manage the growth of the team over the life of the project. You'll learn how to develop long-term strategies for improving your organization's software development. And a whole lot more.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 423-434) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Foreword / Gerald M. Weinberg; title: 1. Setting the Foundation; title: 2. The Integrated Framework; title: 3. Fortifying the Foundation; title: 4. Understanding Yourself; title: 5. Working Smarter; title: 6. Training; title: 7. Development Teams and the SPO Framework; title: 8. An Integrated Framework for Teams; title: 9. Interpersonal Relations; title: 10. Communication; title: 11. Fortifying the Team; title: 12. Organizational Engineering; title: 13. Technological and Organizational Change; title: 14. Team-Oriented Training; title: 15. Working as a Professional; title: 16. Avoiding Bad Working Environments; title: 17. Working In a Poor Environment.