Enterprise Software Delivery

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Book Detail 

Paperback: 320 pages

Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional; 1 edition (June 25, 2012)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 0321803019

ISBN-13: 978-0321803016

File Size : 7.2 Mb | File Format : PDF

Book Description 

Globalization, rapid technology churn, and massive economic shifts have made it more difficult than ever to deliver high-value enterprise software.

In Enterprise Software Delivery, IBM Distinguished Engineer Alan W. Brown guides decision-makers in understanding these new challenges, choosing today’s best solutions, and successfully anticipating future trends.

Alan presents detailed, actionable techniques for building software supply chains that improve agility and innovation while responding to growing cost pressure. Using real-world case studies, he introduces the modern global software factory, demonstrating how to integrate and leverage global outsourced teams, collaborative application lifecycle management, and cloud-based virtual infrastructures.

Drawing on his extensive experience leading IBM Rational software strategy, and consulting with IBM enterprise customers, Alan illuminates everything from software R&D to metrics. Coverage includes

• Understanding recent dramatic changes in enterprise software delivery requirements and practices
• Overcoming false assumptions, outdated data and delivery models, and inexperience with strategy, innovation, education, or research
• Incorporating integrators and partners in centers of excellence that specialize in delivering business value
• Establishing team-based practices that encourage agility, scalability, and quality
• Building adaptive software factories that integrate real-time feedback and respond rapidly to change
• Using virtualized collaborative infrastructure to connect worldwide teams for developing software, assembling solutions, and delivering results
• Transcending barriers related to geography, organization, skills, and culture

If you’re an enterprise software leader, strategist, or practitioner, this book can help you improve every facet of performance you care about, including agility, quality, predictability, innovation, and value.

About the Author

Alan W. Brown is a Distinguished Engineer at IBM Rational software. Alan's current role is IBM Rational Chief Technology Officer (CTO) for Europe where he works with customers across Europe consulting on software engineering strategy as it pertains to enterprise solutions, process improvement, and the transition to agile practices. In this role, Alan engages in strategic discussions in areas such as enterprise solution delivery, software delivery economics, and distributed software and systems delivery. Alan has worked in many strategic roles in the software industry in Europe and the United States, including Vice President of Research and Development at Sterling Software, Research Manager at Texas Instruments Software, and as a senior technical staff member at the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) at Carnegie Mellon University. Alan has published more than fifty papers, authored four books, and edited three books. Alan holds a Ph.D. in computing science from the University of Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, UK.

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