By bfwebster on Feb 27, 2008 in Books, IT Project Management, Main, Methodology, Pitfalls, PMSE, Software engineering, Technology | 1 Comment
[From Pitfalls of Modern Software Engineering by Bruce F. Webster (forthcoming)] CATEGORIES: organizational, conceptual The software development process–creating software to solve a particular problem–is long and complex and has many activities and stages. The exact list will vary depending on what book or article you read but can generally be said to include the following: [...]
By bfwebster on Feb 26, 2008 in Books, Main, Methodology, Pitfalls, PMSE, Technology | 1 Comment
[From Pitfalls of Modern Software Engineering by Bruce F. Webster (forthcoming)] CATEGORIES: organizational, conceptual Suppose you were managing a boxer and wanted him to compete in professional karate tournaments. Suppose you gave him some books on karate to study, showed him a film or two, maybe let him attend a three- or four-day karate training [...]
By bfwebster on Feb 25, 2008 in Books, Methodology, Pitfalls, PMSE, Politics, Technology | 4 Comments
[From Pitfalls of Modern Software Engineering by Bruce F. Webster (forthcoming)] CATEGORIES: organizational, conceptual, political Management is always looking for the proverbial silver bullet, despite Fred Brooks’ warning to the contrary. Good reasons may exist to adopt a particular technology — such as object-oriented development — and/or a particular methodology — such as RUP, Agile, [...]
By bfwebster on Feb 25, 2008 in Books, Pitfalls, PMSE | 14 Comments
Back in the mid-1990s, I wrote and published Pitfalls of Object-Oriented Development (M&T Books, 1995). The book captured lessons learned from five years of full-time commercial software development using object-oriented technology, as well as cautions and observations gleaned from books and articles on the subject. Shortly after the book went into publication, I started plans [...]