Accelerate Your Pursuit of Software Excellence by Learning from
Others' Hard-Won Experience
"Karl is one of the most thoughtful software people I know. He has
reflected deeply on the software development irritants he has
encountered over his career, and this book contains 60 of his most
valuable responses."
-- From the Foreword by Steve McConnell, Construx Software and author
of Code Complete "Wouldn't it be great to gain a lifetime's experience
without having to pay for the inevitable errors of your own experience?
Karl Wiegers is well versed in the best techniques of business analysis,
software engineering, and project management. You'll gain concise but
important insights into how to recover from setbacks as well as how to
avoid them in the first place."
--Meilir Page-Jones, Senior Business Analyst, Wayland Systems Inc.
Experience is a powerful teacher, but it's also slow and painful. You
can't afford to make every mistake yourself! Software Development
Pearls helps you improve faster and bypass much of the pain by
learning from others who already climbed the learning curves. Drawing on
25+ years helping software teams succeed, Karl Wiegers has crystallized
60 concise, practical lessons for all your projects, regardless of your
role, industry, technology, or methodology.
Wiegers's insights and specific recommendations cover six crucial
elements of success: requirements, design, project management, culture
and teamwork, quality, and process improvement. For each, Wiegers offers
First Steps for reflecting on your own experiences before you start;
detailed Lessons with core insights, real case studies, and actionable
solutions; and Next Steps for planning adoption in your project, team,
or organization. This is knowledge you weren't taught in college or boot
camp. It can boost your performance as a developer, business analyst,
quality professional, or manager.
- Clarify requirements to gain a shared vision and understanding of your
real problem
- Create robust designs that implement the right functionality and
quality attributes and can evolve
- Anticipate and avoid ubiquitous project management pitfalls
- Grow a culture in which behaviors actually align with what people
claim to value
- Plan realistically for quality and build it in from the outset
- Use process improvement to achieve desired business results, not as an
end in itself
- Choose your next steps to get full value from all these lessons
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