Guide to Software Development: Designing and Managing the Life Cycle

✍ Scribed by Arthur M. Langer (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag London
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 404
• Edition: 2
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book addresses how best to make build vs. buy decisions, and what effect such decisions have on the software development life cycle (SDLC). Offering an integrated approach that includes important management and decision practices, the text explains how to create successful solutions that fit user and customer needs, by mixing different SDLC methodologies. Features: provides concrete examples and effective case studies focuses on the skills and insights that distinguish successful software implementations covers management issues as well as technical considerations, including how to deal with political and cultural realities in organizations identifies many new alternatives for how to manage and model a system using sophisticated analysis tools and advanced management practices emphasizes how and when professionals can best apply these tools and practices, and what benefits can be derived from their application discusses searching for vendor solutions, and vendor contract considerations.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xvii
Introduction....Pages 1-18
Front Matter....Pages 19-19
Assessing Business Requirements....Pages 21-36
Build Versus Buy....Pages 37-48
Establishing Requirements Using a Request for Proposal (RFP) and a Request for Information (RFI)....Pages 49-70
Searching for Solutions....Pages 71-79
Controlling Costs and Realistic Budgeting....Pages 81-97
Analysis Methods and Tools....Pages 99-113
Front Matter....Pages 115-115
Creating Requirements Documents Using Analysis Tools....Pages 117-144
The Data....Pages 145-178
Legacy Systems and Integration....Pages 179-213
Business Process Reengineering....Pages 215-226
Digital Transformation and Consumer Requirements....Pages 227-250
Data Analytics and Data Warehouses....Pages 251-289
Documentation and Acceptance Testing....Pages 291-297
Front Matter....Pages 299-299
Project Management....Pages 301-323
Virtual Teams and Outsourcing....Pages 325-340
Cyber Security, ISO 9000, and the Software Development Life Cycle....Pages 341-354
Vendor Contract Considerations....Pages 355-378
Going Live and Conclusions....Pages 379-383
Back Matter....Pages 385-402

✦ Subjects

Computer System Implementation;Management of Computing and Information Systems;Computer Appl. in Administrative Data Processing;Special Purpose and Application-Based Systems;System Performance and Evaluation