Growing Software

Author : Louis Testa
Publisher : No Starch Press
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2009-03-15
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781593271831

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Growing Software by Louis Testa Pdf

As the technology leader at a small software company, you need to focus on people, products, processes, and technology as you bring your software to market, while doing your best to put out fires and minimize headaches. Growing Software is your guide to juggling the day-to-day challenges of running a software company while managing those long-term problems and making sure that your business continues to grow. With practical, hands-on advice, Growing Software will teach you how to build and lead an effective team, define and sell your products, work with everyone from customers to CEOs, and ensure high-quality results. Instead of learning by trial and error, you'll benefit from author Louis Testa's 20+ years of management experience. Testa combines big-picture advice, specific solutions, and real-life anecdotes to teach you how to: –Work effectively with your CEO and executive team –Improve development team efficiency and enthusiasm –Evaluate your software methodology to improve effectiveness and safeguard against failure –Use product prototypes to bridge the gap between marketing and engineering –Defuse technology time bombs Whether you're new to managing software or newly lost, Growing Software will help you and your growing company thrive.

Author : Steve Freeman,Nat Pryce
Publisher : Pearson Education
Page : 762 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2009-10-12
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780321699763

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Growing Object-Oriented Software, Guided by Tests by Steve Freeman,Nat Pryce Pdf

Test-Driven Development (TDD) is now an established technique for delivering better software faster. TDD is based on a simple idea: Write tests for your code before you write the code itself. However, this "simple" idea takes skill and judgment to do well. Now there's a practical guide to TDD that takes you beyond the basic concepts. Drawing on a decade of experience building real-world systems, two TDD pioneers show how to let tests guide your development and “grow” software that is coherent, reliable, and maintainable. Steve Freeman and Nat Pryce describe the processes they use, the design principles they strive to achieve, and some of the tools that help them get the job done. Through an extended worked example, you’ll learn how TDD works at multiple levels, using tests to drive the features and the object-oriented structure of the code, and using Mock Objects to discover and then describe relationships between objects. Along the way, the book systematically addresses challenges that development teams encounter with TDD—from integrating TDD into your processes to testing your most difficult features. Coverage includes Implementing TDD effectively: getting started, and maintaining your momentum throughout the project Creating cleaner, more expressive, more sustainable code Using tests to stay relentlessly focused on sustaining quality Understanding how TDD, Mock Objects, and Object-Oriented Design come together in the context of a real software development project Using Mock Objects to guide object-oriented designs Succeeding where TDD is difficult: managing complex test data, and testing persistence and concurrency

Author : Louis Testa
Publisher : No Starch Press
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2009-03-15
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781593272258

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Growing Software by Louis Testa Pdf

As the technology leader at a small software company, you need to focus on people, products, processes, and technology as you bring your software to market, while doing your best to put out fires and minimize headaches. Growing Software is your guide to juggling the day-to-day challenges of running a software company while managing those long-term problems and making sure that your business continues to grow. With practical, hands-on advice, Growing Software will teach you how to build and lead an effective team, define and sell your products, work with everyone from customers to CEOs, and ensure high-quality results. Instead of learning by trial and error, you'll benefit from author Louis Testa's 20+ years of management experience. Testa combines big-picture advice, specific solutions, and real-life anecdotes to teach you how to: –Work effectively with your CEO and executive team –Improve development team efficiency and enthusiasm –Evaluate your software methodology to improve effectiveness and safeguard against failure –Use product prototypes to bridge the gap between marketing and engineering –Defuse technology time bombs Whether you're new to managing software or newly lost, Growing Software will help you and your growing company thrive.

Author : Marc Brevoort
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780955982408

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Growing Better Software by Marc Brevoort Pdf

Based on decades of real-life software development experience, this book will help you produce best-of-breed, world class software. Set up both as a manual and reference, this book will help both novice and experienced software developers to take their skills to the next level. Learn how to produce lean, mean, structured code; how to keep bugs out of your programs; to make your software more user-friendly; to improve maintainability; to troubleshoot your projects; and to guarantee software quality.

Author : Roy W. Miller
Publisher : Addison-Wesley Professional
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0321117433

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Managing Software for Growth by Roy W. Miller Pdf

- Helps managers combat the manufacturing mindset that dominates business thinking, and shows why this mindset is harmful to software development - Introduces predictability to the historically unpredictable world of software development - Allows organizations to improve job satisfaction by fostering an environment of creativity among developers

Author : Will Larson
Publisher : Stripe Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2019-05-20
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781953953339

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An Elegant Puzzle by Will Larson Pdf

A human-centric guide to solving complex problems in engineering management, from sizing teams to handling technical debt. There’s a saying that people don’t leave companies, they leave managers. Management is a key part of any organization, yet the discipline is often self-taught and unstructured. Getting to the good solutions for complex management challenges can make the difference between fulfillment and frustration for teams—and, ultimately, between the success and failure of companies. Will Larson’s An Elegant Puzzle focuses on the particular challenges of engineering management—from sizing teams to handling technical debt to performing succession planning—and provides a path to the good solutions. Drawing from his experience at Digg, Uber, and Stripe, Larson has developed a thoughtful approach to engineering management for leaders of all levels at companies of all sizes. An Elegant Puzzle balances structured principles and human-centric thinking to help any leader create more effective and rewarding organizations for engineers to thrive in.

Author : Milan Kratochvíl,Charles Carson
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2005-03-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 3540239596

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Growing Modular by Milan Kratochvíl,Charles Carson Pdf

A starter to the concepts of modularization and mass customization. Condensed and application-oriented approach for a broad audience in engineering, production, sales and marketing. Provides an extensive configurator evaluation checklist for future users and a supplement of business cases.

Author : Nor Azliana Akmal Jamaludin
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2015-09-21
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783668050594

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Requirements Engineering Project-Based Learning Model Using the Electronic Learning Software Engineering System (ELINS) by Nor Azliana Akmal Jamaludin Pdf

Doctoral Thesis / Dissertation from the year 2014 in the subject Computer Science - Software, grade: Pass, University of Technology, Malaysia (Faculty of Computing), course: Software Engineering Education, language: English, abstract: The success of software project depends on how well it fits the needs of its user and its environment. This research strongly believes that future Requirement Engineering (RE) engineers should have the necessary generic skills in order to improve the quality of producing Software Requirement Specification. The software industry claims that the software engineering graduates are not able to meet their requirements for employability. Thus, confronting the problems right from the Higher Learning Education level that lead to this disparity will save the software industry the cost of sending new employees for additional training. The objectives of this research are to develop new learning environment model that can be implemented in RE education; construct a prototype namely Electronic Learning Software Engineering System (ELINS) that allows the industry, educators and Software Engineering (SE) undergraduate students to actively communicate and collaborate; and measure the effectiveness of the proposed learning model in teaching RE and enhancing the generic skills of SE undergraduates. This research comprises of pilot and main study to gather the requirement from experience of software industry personnel before evaluating the students after they involve in experimental test. The interview findings from the pilot study provided inputs which guide this research to develop the actual questionnaire for the main study. The study discusses the factors, causes, expected attributes, and importance of allowing undergraduates to improve their generic skills through actual hands-on participation. Rasch Measurement Model’s software, WinStep, is used to analyze the raw data. In experimental test, students are provided with opportunities to practise how to deliver the SRS by doing several case studies from the software industry. The analysis and results have shown a positive improvement of the generic skills among the students who were involved in the Requirement Engineering Project Based-Learning (RE PjBL) model environment compared to those who were taught the course by traditional methods with minimal cost. The results conclude that the RE PjBL which are facilitated by ELINS can enhance student’s knowledge, skills and attitude effectively.

Author : United States. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 740 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1957
Category : Employment forecasting
ISBN : IND:30000089076727

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Occupational Outlook Handbook by United States. Bureau of Labor Statistics Pdf

Author : Gergely Orosz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2021-04-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1638778868

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Building Mobile Apps at Scale by Gergely Orosz Pdf

While there is a lot of appreciation for backend and distributed systems challenges, there tends to be less empathy for why mobile development is hard when done at scale. This book collects challenges engineers face when building iOS and Android apps at scale, and common ways to tackle these. By scale, we mean having numbers of users in the millions and being built by large engineering teams. For mobile engineers, this book is a blueprint for modern app engineering approaches. For non-mobile engineers and managers, it is a resource with which to build empathy and appreciation for the complexity of world-class mobile engineering. The book covers iOS and Android mobile app challenges on these dimensions: Challenges due to the unique nature of mobile applications compared to the web, and to the backend. App complexity challenges. How do you deal with increasingly complicated navigation patterns? What about non-deterministic event combinations? How do you localize across several languages, and how do you scale your automated and manual tests? Challenges due to large engineering teams. The larger the mobile team, the more challenging it becomes to ensure a consistent architecture. If your company builds multiple apps, how do you balance not rewriting everything from scratch while moving at a fast pace, over waiting on "centralized" teams? Cross-platform approaches. The tooling to build mobile apps keeps changing. New languages, frameworks, and approaches that all promise to address the pain points of mobile engineering keep appearing. But which approach should you choose? Flutter, React Native, Cordova? Native apps? Reuse business logic written in Kotlin, C#, C++ or other languages? What engineering approaches do "world-class" mobile engineering teams choose in non-functional aspects like code quality, compliance, privacy, compliance, or with experimentation, performance, or app size?

Author : Nick Mehta,Dan Steinman,Lincoln Murphy
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2016-02-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781119167969

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Customer Success by Nick Mehta,Dan Steinman,Lincoln Murphy Pdf

Your business success is now forever linked to the success of your customers Customer Success is the groundbreaking guide to the exciting new model of customer management. Business relationships are fundamentally changing. In the world B.C. (Before Cloud), companies could focus totally on sales and marketing because customers were often 'stuck' after purchasing. Therefore, all of the 'post-sale' experience was a cost center in most companies. In the world A.B. (After Benioff), with granular per-year, per-month or per-use pricing models, cloud deployments and many competitive options, customers now have the power. As such, B2B vendors must deliver success for their clients to achieve success for their own businesses. Customer success teams are being created in companies to quarterback the customer lifecycle and drive adoption, renewals, up-sell and advocacy. The Customer Success philosophy is invading the boardroom and impacting the way CEOs think about their business. Today, Customer Success is the hottest B2B movement since the advent of the subscription business model, and this book is the one-of-a-kind guide that shows you how to make it work in your company. From the initial planning stages through execution, you'll have expert guidance to help you: Understand the context that led to the start of the Customer Success movement Build a Customer Success strategy proven by the most competitive companies in the world Implement an action plan for structuring the Customer Success organization, tiering your customers, and developing the right cross-functional playbooks Customers want products that help them achieve their own business outcomes. By enabling your customers to realize value in your products, you're protecting recurring revenue and creating a customer for life. Customer Success shows you how to kick start your customer-centric revolution, and make it stick for the long term.

Author : Bush Wes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2019-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1777119316

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Product-Led Growth by Bush Wes Pdf

"Product-Led Growth is about helping your customers experience the ongoing value your product provides. It is a critical step in successful product design and this book shows you how it's done." - Nir Eyal, Wall Street Journal Bestselling Author of "Hooked"

Author : Helen Sharp,Tracy Hall
Publisher : Springer
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2016-05-14
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783319335155

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Agile Processes, in Software Engineering, and Extreme Programming by Helen Sharp,Tracy Hall Pdf

This book contains the refereed proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Agile Software Development, XP 2016, held in Edinburgh, UK, in May 2016. While agile development has already become mainstream in industry, this field is still constantly evolving and continues to spur an enormous interest both in industry and academia. To this end, the XP conference attracts a large number of software practitioners and researchers, providing a rare opportunity for interaction between the two communities. The 14 full papers accepted for XP 2016 were selected from 42 submissions. Additionally, 11 experience reports (from 25 submissions) 5 empirical studies (out of 12 submitted) and 5 doctoral papers (from 6 papers submitted) were selected, and in each case the authors were shepherded by an experienced researcher. Generally, all of the submitted papers went through a rigorous peer-review process.

Author : Donald J. Reifer
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2006-08-30
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780471775621

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Software Management by Donald J. Reifer Pdf

This Seventh Edition of Donald Reifer's popular, bestselling tutorial summarizes what software project managers need to know to be successful on the job. The text provides pointers and approaches to deal with the issues, challenges, and experiences that shape their thoughts and performance. To accomplish its goals, the volume explores recent advances in dissimilar fields such as management theory, acquisition management, globalization, knowledge management, licensing, motivation theory, process improvement, organization dynamics, subcontract management, and technology transfer. Software Management provides software managers at all levels of the organization with the information they need to know to develop their software engineering management strategies for now and the future. The book provides insight into management tools and techniques that work in practice. It also provides sufficient instructional materials to serve as a text for a course in software management. This new edition achieves a balance between theory and practical experience. Reifer systematically addresses the skills, knowledge, and abilities that software managers, at any level of experience, need to have to practice their profession effectively. This book contains original articles by leaders in the software management field written specifically for this tutorial, as well as a collection of applicable reprints. About forty percent of the material in this edition has been produced specifically for the tutorial. Contents: * Introduction * Life Cycle Models * Process Improvement * Project Management * Planning Fundamentals * Software Estimating * Organizing for Success * Staffing Essentials * Direction Advice * Visibility and Control * Software Risk Management * Metrics and Measurement * Acquisition Management * Emerging Management Topics "The challenges faced by software project managers are the gap between what the customers can envision and the reality on the ground and how to deal with the risks associated with this gap in delivering a product that meets requirements on time and schedule at the target costs. This tutorial hits the mark by providing project managers, practitioners, and educators with source materials on how project managers can effectively deal with this risk." -Dr. Kenneth E. Nidiffer, Systems & Software Consortium, Inc. "The volume has evolved into a solid set of foundation works for anyone trying to practice software management in a world that is increasingly dependent on software release quality, timeliness, and productivity." -Walker Royce, Vice President, IBM Software Services-Rational

Author : Niall Richard Murphy,Betsy Beyer,Chris Jones,Jennifer Petoff
Publisher : "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781491951170

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Site Reliability Engineering by Niall Richard Murphy,Betsy Beyer,Chris Jones,Jennifer Petoff Pdf

The overwhelming majority of a software system’s lifespan is spent in use, not in design or implementation. So, why does conventional wisdom insist that software engineers focus primarily on the design and development of large-scale computing systems? In this collection of essays and articles, key members of Google’s Site Reliability Team explain how and why their commitment to the entire lifecycle has enabled the company to successfully build, deploy, monitor, and maintain some of the largest software systems in the world. You’ll learn the principles and practices that enable Google engineers to make systems more scalable, reliable, and efficient—lessons directly applicable to your organization. This book is divided into four sections: Introduction—Learn what site reliability engineering is and why it differs from conventional IT industry practices Principles—Examine the patterns, behaviors, and areas of concern that influence the work of a site reliability engineer (SRE) Practices—Understand the theory and practice of an SRE’s day-to-day work: building and operating large distributed computing systems Management—Explore Google's best practices for training, communication, and meetings that your organization can use