Balancing Agility and Discipline : A Guide for the Perplexed

Turner, Richard, Boehm, Barry

ISBN 10: 0321186125 / ISBN 13: 9780321186126

Edité par Addison Wesley Professional, 2003

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• Titre: Balancing Agility and Discipline : A Guide for the Perplexed
• Éditeur: Addison Wesley Professional
• Date de parution: 2003
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0321186125
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780321186126
• Reliure: Couverture souple
• Édition: 1st Edition.
• État de l'article: Good

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Synopsis

Nowadays, there are many methodologies you can introduce your to students. On the one hand, there are the more agile methods that focus on individual projects, and how to get them done fast―the camp represented by Beck and Cockburn. On the other hand, there are the more disciplined methods, focused on setting up organizational processes for getting projects done with predictable high quality―the camp best represented by the SEI, the CMMI, and Humphrey. Although these methods are often presented as mutually exclusive, they actually lie on a continuum. The authors of Balancing Agility and Discipline have worked out clear guidelines for determining where on that continuum a particular software development project is located―and therefore, how agile or disciplined a chosen methodology can or has to be.

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Barry Boehm has been trying to balance agility and discipline in software development since 1955. The TRW professor of software engineering and director of the USC Center for Software Engineering, he earlier served as director of the DARPA Information Science and Technology Office and as a chief scientist at TRW. Dr. Boehm's contributions to the field include the Constructive Cost Model (COCOMO), the Spiral Model of the software process, the Theory W (win-win) approach to software management and requirements determination, and his classic book, Software Engineering Economics (Prentice Hall, 1981). Richard Turner, a research professor in engineering management and systems engineering at the George Washington University, approaches balanced software development and acquisition with broad industry and government experience and a skeptical attitude toward best practices. In support of the U.S. Department of Defense, he is responsible for identifying and transitioning new software technology into the development and acquisition of complex, software-intensive defense systems. Dr. Turner was on the original author team for Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) and is coauthor off CMMI Distilled, Second Edition (Addison-Wesley, 2004).