Guide to Software Development: Designing and Managing the Life Cycle

✍ Scribed by Arthur M. Langer (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag London
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 369
• Edition: 1
• 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
Front Matter....Pages 19-19
Introduction....Pages 1-17
Front Matter....Pages 19-19
Assessing Business Requirements....Pages 21-35
Build vs. Buy....Pages 37-48
Establishing Requirements Using RFP and RFI....Pages 49-70
Searching for Solutions....Pages 71-79
Controlling Costs and Realistic Budgeting....Pages 81-97
Analysis Methods and Tools....Pages 99-114
Front Matter....Pages 115-115
Creating Requirement Documents Using Analysis Tools....Pages 117-143
The Data....Pages 145-177
Legacy Systems and Integration....Pages 179-212
Business Process Reengineering....Pages 213-224
Data Analytics and Data Warehouses....Pages 225-259
Documentation and Acceptance Testing....Pages 261-267
Front Matter....Pages 269-269
Project Management....Pages 271-293
ISO 9000 and the Software Development Life Cycle....Pages 295-304
Contract Considerations....Pages 305-328
Going Live and Conclusions....Pages 329-332
Back Matter....Pages 333-350

✦ 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