Structured Analysis and System Specification (Yourdon computing series)

Computers & Technology

Tom DeMarco

Computer Science

PRENTICE/HALL

This classic book of tools and methods for the analyst brings order and precisions to the specification process as it provides guidance and development of a structured specification. Covers functional decomposition; data dictionary; process specification; system modeling; structured analysis for a future system. Suitable for practicing systems analysts.

Structured Analysis and System Specification

Business & Money

Management & Leadership

Mystery of the Ages

Did you ever ask yourself: "Who am I" What am I? Why am I" You Are a mystery. The world about you can understandPaperback: 315 pages Publisher: WORLDWIDE CHURCH OF GOD; 1ST edition (1985) ISBN-10: 0396088082

Peopleware : Productive Projects and Teams

Timothy Lister

NY: Dorset House Publishing

If your company’s goal is to become fast, responsive, and agile, more efficiency is not the answer--you need more slack. Why is it that today’s superefficient organizations are ailing? Tom DeMarco, a leading management consultant to both Fortune 500 and up-and-coming companies, reveals a counterintuitive principle that explains why efficiency efforts can slow a company down. That principle is the value of slack, the degree of freedom in a company that allows it to change. Implementing slack could be as simple as adding an assistant to a department and letting high-priced talent spend less time at the photocopier and more time making key decisions, or it could mean designing workloads that allow people room to think, innovate, and reinvent themselves. It means embracing risk, eliminating fear, and knowing when to go slow. Slack allows for change, fosters creativity, promotes quality, and, above all, produces growth. With an approach that works for new- and old-economy companies alike, this revolutionary handbook debunks commonly held assumptions about real-world management, and gives you and your company a brand-new model for achieving and maintaining true effectiveness.

Slack: Getting Past Burnout, Busywork, and the Myth of Total Efficiency

Biographies & Memoirs

Professionals & Academics

Crown Currency

Slack : Getting Past Burnout, Busywork, and the Myth of Total Efficiency

Doubleday Books

vi 94p orange / white paperback, very good clean fresh copy

Concise notes on software engineering (Yourdon computing series)

Yourdon Press

This is an old book. much of it still relevant- It's about custom software development - lessons from the 80's that "modern" developers need to learn-- including-discussion of the flaws in project estimating -chapter 2-as relevant now as when published. The use of professional estimators - makes sense & many cost overruns & schedule slips in software development projects- for the same reasons. aan excellent resource for software metrics- chapter 7 of this book is - a useful introduction. Chapter 8 is based on structured methods but it resonates strongly with the Zachman Framework that is widely popular today. The middle of the book is out of date-still interesting & there are some lessons that apply to the OO world.The section on software quality (chapters 19-21) is as relevant today as when it was written. The isn't the first book on this subject you should read, but it is likely to give you a new and useful perspective on some important issues.like many books this is one that you might buy for very specific knowledge maybe not in its entirety

Controlling Software Projects

Science & Math

Mathematics

Concerned as we are about information anxiety and about possible deformation of tectonic plates due to the accumulation of unread Datamations and Computerworlds, we decided to search through the tons of software literature published over the last ten years and select the good stuff. Hence this collection, We can't guarantee that it includes every single paper worth reading from the eighties, but we claim it is close. Do yourself a huge favor: Read these thirty-one papers and throw out all the stacks of unread material dating back as far as 1980. You'll feel better immediately. The selected papers have been grouped into four subsets, represented by parts I through IV of the book. The four parts entitled: I Management II Measurement III Methods IV News from Left Field

Software State of the Art: Selected Papers

Programming

Dorset House

dust cover intact. pages unmarked.

Why Does Software Cost So Much?: And Other Puzzles of the Information Age

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