{"product_id":"9780133489293","title":"Creating a Software Engineering Culture","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis is the digital version of the printed book (Copyright © 1996).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWritten in a remarkably clear style, \u003cb\u003e \u003ci\u003e \u003cb\u003eCreating a Software Engineering Culture \u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003epresents a comprehensive approach to improving the quality and effectiveness of the software development process.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn twenty chapters spread over six parts, Wiegers promotes the tactical changes required to support process improvement and high-quality software development. Throughout the text, Wiegers identifies scores of culture builders and culture killers, and he offers a wealth of references to resources for the software engineer, including seminars, conferences, publications, videos, and on-line information.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWith case studies on process improvement and software metrics programs and an entire part on action planning (called “What to Do on Monday”), this practical book guides the reader in applying the concepts to real life.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTopics include software culture concepts, team behaviors, the five dimensions of a software project, recognizing achievements, optimizing customer involvement, the project champion model, tools for sharing the vision, requirements traceability matrices, the capability maturity model, action planning, testing, inspections, metrics-based project estimation, the cost of quality, and much more!\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePrinciples from Part 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003e Never let your boss or your customer talk you into doing a bad job. \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e People need to feel the work they do is appreciated. \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e Ongoing education is every team member’s responsibility. \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e Customer involvement is the most critical factor in software quality. \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e Your greatest challenge is sharing the vision of the final product with the customer. \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e Continual improvement of your software development process is both possible and essential. \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e Written software development procedures can help build a shared culture of best practices. \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e Quality is the top priority; long-term productivity is a natural consequence of high quality. \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e Strive to have a peer, rather than a customer, find a defect. \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e A key to software quality is to iterate many times on all development steps except coding: Do this once. \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e Managing bug reports and change requests is essential to controlling quality and maintenance. \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e If you measure what you do, you can learn to do it better. \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e You can’t change everything at once. Identify those changes that will yield the greatest benefits, and begin to implement them next Monday. \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e Do what makes sense; don’t resort to dogma. \u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e        \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Pearson Education","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47078878544112,"sku":"9780133489293","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780133489293_p0.jpg?v=1763641092","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780133489293","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}