Software Engineering Best Practices: Lessons from Successful Projects in the Top Companies

Software Engineering Best Practices: Lessons from Successful Projects in the Top Companies

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Proven techniques for software development success

In this practical guide, software-quality guru Capers Jones reveals best practices for ensuring software development success by illustrating the engineering methods used by the most successful large software projects at leading companies such as IBM, Microsoft, Sony, and EDS.

Software Engineering Best Practices covers estimating and planning; requirements analysis; change control; quality control; progress and cost tracking; and maintenance and support after delivery. Agile development, extreme programming, joint application design (JAD), six-sigma for software, and other methods are discussed.

About the Author

Capers Jones was the founder and chairman of Software Productivity Research (SPR) where he retains the title of Chief Scientist Emeritus. He is the author ofEstimating Software Costs, Second Edition and Applied Software Measurement.

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