Managing Software Crisis: A Smart Way to Enterprise Agility

This book discusses smart, agile software development methods and their applications for enterprise crisis management, presenting a systematic approach that promotes agility and crisis management in software engineering. The key finding is that these crises are caused by both technology-based and human-related factors. Being mission-critical, human-related issues are often neglected. To manage the crises, the book suggests an efficient agile methodology including a set of models, methods, patterns, practices and tools. Together, these make a survival toolkit for large-scale software development in crises. Further, the book analyses lifecycles and methodologies focusing on their impact on the project timeline and budget, and incorporates a set of industry-based patterns, practices and case studies, combining academic concepts and practices of software engineering.

Focuses on crisis management in software production Identifies the primary reasons for the software crisis Analyses the so-called human factor errors resulting from crisis conditions, and the non-systematic software lifecycle Highlights the knowledge transfer issues in software-related projects Outlines efficient methods for software-related project lifecycles Offers troubleshooting advice

Autorentext

Dr. Sergey V. Zykov completed his M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Computer Science from Moscow Engineering Physics Institute in the year 1994 and 2000, respectively. Presently, Dr. Zykov is working as Professor in National Research University, Higher School of Economics, Russia. He is a member of many professional organisations like IWA, IIIS and KES Intl. He is a member of many reputed journal boards - International Journal of Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Engineering System and Intelligent Decision Technologies. He has published three books - "Managing Software Crisis: A Smart Way to Enterprise Agility" , "Agile Enterprise Engineering: Smart Application of Human Factors" and "Crisis Management for Software Development and Knowledge Transfer" by Springer, and "Software Engineering for Enterprise System Agility" with IGI Global.

Inhalt
The Agile Way.- Agile Languages.- Agile Services.- Agile Patterns and Practices.