Kategoria BISAC: Computers >> Software Development & Engineering - Project Management

There are two different, interdependent components of IT that are important to a CIO: strategy, which is long-term; and tactical and operational concerns, which are short-term. Based on this distinction and its repercussions, this book clearly separates strategy from day-to-day operations and projects from operations - the two most important functions of a CIO.

It starts by discussing the ideal organization of an IT department and the rationale behind it, and then goes on to debate the most pressing need - managing operations. It also explains some best industry standards and their...

The book centers on the art of team coaching specifically for Scrum Masters or Agile practitioners leading teams. This topic remains largely unexamined by the literature as there is a lack of contemporary guidance about coaching Agile teams on acquiring qualities paramount for an adaptive organization - being self-organized and assuming ownership over their ways of working and its results. An Agile practitioner has to either study books on professional coaching that don't provide much information on working in the Agile context or try to implement Agile methodologies and frameworks with...

Learn how to integrate model-based systems engineering (MBSE) with mission-driven requirements to create a connected framework that delivers reliable solutions designed with key objectives. This book uses real-world examples to demonstrate how clear requirements and smart modeling lead to systems that work better, cost less to fix, and meet their goals the first time.

Author, Air Force veteran, and Chief Systems Engineer Dennis Hansen draws on 60 years of experience managing full system lifecycles across military, government, and private sectors. This foundation drives a practical...

Software is consuming nearly every aspect of our lives - from dating and finance to delivering food. There s never been a more important time to get better at delivering software. To stay competitive, to survive, we need our software projects to succeed. But far too often, projects that should have succeeded fail. They fail because we can t see what is going on in them. They fail because we are seeing them in the wrong way.

The message of this book is that we need to adopt the right point of view. Seeing things from the right point of view will make us smarter. It will allow us to...

This instructive book takes you step by step through ways to track, merge, and manage both open source and commercial software projects with Mercurial, using Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, Solaris, and other systems. Mercurial is the easiest system to learn when it comes to distributed revision control. And it's a very flexible tool that's ideal whether you're a lone programmer working on a small project, or part of a huge team dealing with thousands of files.

Mercurial permits a countless variety of development and collaboration methods, and this book offers several concrete...