An ordered collection of learning points from past software projects. Details potential barriers to success; explains how to preempt problems and how to correct mistakes. Uses examples from actual software projects to illustrate a range of poor, satisfactory and successful endeavors. Lessons learned on these past projects are then identified and used to build a profile of the healthy project. Comprehensive appendices cover quality management systems, useful product measures and process improvement.

The Healthy Software Project: A Guide to Successful Development and Management (Wiley-BT Series)

Computers & Technology

Payne, Malcolm

Rigby, Peter

Norris, Mark

Programming

wiley

Rigby, Peter, Cattle And Kinship Among The Gogo: A Semi-Pastoral Society Of Cen

Cattle and kinship among the Gogo;: A semi-pastoral society of Central Tanzania

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

NCROL

Focusing on the Ilparakuyo Maasai of Kenya and Tanzania, Peter Rigby discusses why third world development policies with regard to pastoral societies are inappropriate and likely to fail. A political economy of development, maintains Rigby, must incorporate historical, cultural, linguistic, and even aesthetic dimensions of the peoples involved. Using ethnography and other research materials, the author illuminates the culture and explores the prospects of a distinct section of pastoral Maasai (the Ilparakuyo). In addition, he attempts to develop a historical materialist theory of language in relation to a specific East African culture. While rural development is a priority in many recently independent third world countries, it is often not designed for the benefit of the producer, as when food products are exported rather than used for domestic consumption. Although much information is available about pastoral societies - herd size, grazing areas, livestock holdings between families - the cultures, languages, and aspirations of such societies are often overlooked by development planners. Rigby describes how government expectations should be based on such social conditions. Adopting an African perspective derived from a dialogue with African philosophical discourse, Rigby analyzes the language customs of the people he lived with to chronicle the changes forced upon the Maasai by both colonial and post-colonial governments. The book features more than a dozen photos that portray a juxtaposition of tradition and modern development in local communities. The Maasai have been victims of land expropriation, unnatural division by international boundaries, forcible interference with their customs and rituals, and marginalization by developing governments. Despite this incessant onslaught and the formation of classes in a hitherto classless society, the Maasai have managed to a great degree to preserve their culture and way of thinking. Rigby urges a revolution in planning priorities that respects the Maasai way of life.

Cattle, Capitalism, Class

Temple University Press

Focusing on the Ilparakuyo Maasai of Kenya and Tanzania, this book discusses why third world development policies with regard to pastoral societies are inappropriate and likely to fail. It analyzes the language and customs of the Maasai to chronicle the changes forces upon them by both colonial and post-colonial governments.

Cattle, Capitalism, Class: Ilparakuyo Maasai Transformations

Business & Money

Economics

Crazy World of Sailing

Humor & Entertainment

Humor

Slawson Communications

Crazy World of Tennis

This controversial book is an impassioned African response to the racial stereotyping of African people and people of African descent by prominent white scholars. It highlights how the media contributes to the growth of racist ideas, particularly in reporting current events in Africa, and demonstrates how some of America's most revered intellectuals cloak racist ideologies in ostensibly egalitarian discourses. The author seeks to rewrite the image of 'race' in order to show the damage racism can cause serious scholarship.

African Images: Racism and the End of Anthropology (Global Issues)

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

Routledge

This controversial book is an impassioned African response to the racial stereotyping of African people and people of African descent by prominent white scholars. It highlights how the media contributes to the growth of racist ideas, particularly in reporting current events in Africa, and demonstrates how some of America's most revered intellectuals cloak racist ideologies in ostensibly egalitarian discourses. The author seeks to rewrite the image of 'race' in order to show the damage racism can cause serious scholarship.

African Images (Global Issues)

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