Aiming to help developers bridge the gap between theory of Unified Software Development Process and the practical realities necessary to design and build a software system, this text incorporates practical experience and four case studies.

Use Case Driven Object Modeling with UML: ICONIX Process in Theory and Practice (Addison-Wesley Object Technology Series)

Computers & Technology

Rosenberg, Doug

Stephens, Matt

Programming

Addison-Wesley Professional

Here is another ground-breaking book on software development from the team behind Extreme Programming Refactored. Its novel approach of turning test-driven development on its head will attract developers disappointed with the approach of eXtreme programmers.

Design Driven Testing: Test Smarter, Not Harder

Apress

Use Case Driven Object Modeling with UML: Theory and Practice shows how to drive an object-oriented software design from use case all the way through coding and testing, based on the minimalist, UML-based ICONIX process. In addition to a comprehensive explanation of the foundations of the approach, the book makes extensive use of examples and provides exercises at the back of each chapter. 
 This book leads by example. It demonstrates common analysis and design errors, shows how to detect and fix them, and suggests how to avoid making the same errors in the future. The book also encourages you to examine its UML examples and to search for specific errors. You'll get clues, then later receive the answers during review sessions toward the end of the book.

Use Case Driven Object Modeling with UML: Theory and Practice (Expert's Voice in UML Modeling)

Rosenberg, Don

Computer Science

Diagramming and process are important topics in today’s software development world, as the UML diagramming language has come to be almost universally accepted. Yet process is necessary; by themselves, diagrams are of little use. Use Case Driven Object Modeling with UML - Theory and Practice combines the notation of UML with a lightweight but effective process - the ICONIX process - for designing and developing software systems. ICONIX has developed a growing following over the years. Sitting between the free-for-all of Extreme Programming and overly rigid processes such as RUP, ICONIX offers just enough structure to be successful.

Use Case Driven Object Modeling with UMLTheory and Practice

Springer

*Describes an agile process that works on large projects 
*Ideal for hurried developers who want to develop software in teams *Incorporates real-life C#/.NET web project; can compare this with cases in book

Agile Development with ICONIX Process: People, Process, and Pragmatism

Business & Money

Collins-Cope, Mark

Management & Leadership

How engaged are your employees, really? Companies talk about employee engagement and they accept its importance, yet strangely, they adopt outdated methods when analyzing and measuring engagement. Leading engagement expert Matt Stephens offers a new framework for taking the genuine pulse of a company so that management can truly understand how their people are feeling in order to take strategic action to increase performance. If, as the cliché goes, people are a company's greatest asset, then ensuring their engagement is essential for any company's success. Revolution in a Heartbeat argues powerfully for a radical new approach to employee engagement.

Revolution in a Heartbeat: Using Emotional Insights to Drive Better Business Performance

LID Publishing

How engaged are your employees, really? Companies talk about 'employee engagement' and they accept its importance, yet strangely, they adopt out-dated methods when analysing and measuring this engagement. A leading engagement expert offers a new framework for taking the genuine pulse of a company - so that leaders and management can truly understand how their people are feeling and know what actions to take that result in better performance. Based on making results instantly and transparently available, and then determining with employees the real factors that lie within their feelings, managers can more easily assess the way they need to approach an issue. If, as the cliché goes, 'people are a company's greatest asset', then ensuring their close engagement is essential for any company. This book argues powerfully for a radical new approach to employee engagement, based on understanding the minds and emotions of the people who work in organizations.

The Engagement Revolution: Using emotional intelligence to drive better business performance

Business Culture

Parallel Agile – faster delivery, fewer defects, lower cost

From the Back Cover From the beginning of software time, people have wondered why it isn’t possible to accelerate software projects by simply adding staff. This is sometimes known as the “nine women can’t make a baby in one month” problem. The most famous treatise declaring this to be impossible is Fred Brooks’ 1975 book The Mythical Man-Month, in which he declares that “adding more programmers to a late software project makes it later,” and indeed this has proven largely true over the decades. Aided by a domain-driven code generator that quickly creates database and API code, Parallel Agile (PA) achieves significant schedule compression using parallelism: as many developers as necessary can independently and concurrently develop the scenarios from initial prototype through production code. Projects can scale by elastic staffing, rather than by stretching schedules for larger development efforts. Schedule compression with a large team of developers working in parallel is analogous to hardware acceleration of compute problems using parallel CPUs.PA has some similarities with and differences from other Agile approaches. Like most Agile methods, PA "gets to code early" and uses feedback from executable software to drive requirements and design. PA uses technical prototyping as a risk-mitigation strategy, to help sanity-check requirements for feasibility, and to evaluate different technical architectures and technologies.Unlike many Agile methods, PA does not support "design by refactoring," and it doesn't drive designs from unit tests. Instead, PA uses a minimalist UML-based design approach (Agile/ICONIX) that starts out with a domain model to facilitate communication across the development team, and partitions the system along use case boundaries, which enables parallel development. Parallel Agile is fully compatible with the Incremental Commitment Spiral Model (ICSM), which involves concurrent effort of a systems engineering team, a development team, and a test team working alongside the developers. The authors have been researching and refining the PA process for several years on multiple test projects that have involved over 200 developers. The book’s example project details the design of one of these test projects, a crowdsourced traffic safety system. Product Description From the beginning of software time, people have wondered why it isn’t possible to accelerate software projects by simply adding staff. This is sometimes known as the “nine women can’t make a baby in one month” problem. The most famous treatise declaring this to be impossible is Fred Brooks’ 1975 book The Mythical Man-Month, in which he declares that “adding more programmers to a late software project makes it later,” and indeed this has proven largely true over the decades. Aided by a domain-driven code generator that quickly creates database and API code, Parallel Agile (PA) achieves significant schedule compression using parallelism: as many developers as necessary can independently and concurrently develop the scenarios from initial prototype through production code. Projects can scale by elastic staffing, rather than by stretching schedules for larger development efforts. Schedule compression with a large team of developers working in parallel is analogous to hardware acceleration of compute problems using parallel CPUs.PA has some similarities with and differences from other Agile approaches. Like most Agile methods, PA "gets to code early" and uses feedback from executable software to drive requirements and design. PA uses technical prototyping as a risk-mitigation strategy, to help sanity-check requirements for feasibility, and to evaluate different technical architectures and technologies.Unlike many Agile methods, PA does not support "design by refactoring," and it doesn't drive designs from unit tests. Instead, PA uses a minimalist UML-based design approach (Agile/ICONIX) that starts out with a domain model to facilitate communicat

Wang, Bo

Boehm, Barry

Suscheck, Charles

Dhalipathi, Shobha Rani

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Use Case Driven Object Modeling with UML: ICONIX Process in Theory and Practice (Addison-Wesley Object Technology Series)

Design Driven Testing: Test Smarter, Not Harder

Use Case Driven Object Modeling with UML: Theory and Practice (Expert's Voice in UML Modeling)

Use Case Driven Object Modeling with UMLTheory and Practice

Agile Development with ICONIX Process: People, Process, and Pragmatism

Use Case Driven Object Modeling with UMLTheory and Practice

Revolution in a Heartbeat: Using Emotional Insights to Drive Better Business Performance

The Engagement Revolution: Using emotional intelligence to drive better business performance

Parallel Agile – faster delivery, fewer defects, lower cost