Quality Software Management: Anticipating Change

Quality Software Management #4

by Gerald M. Weinberg

Partial ContentsI Modeling How Change Really Happens- Some Familiar Change Models- The Satir Change Model- Responses to ChangeII Change Artistry in the Anticipating Organization- Change Artistry- Keeping Most Things the Same- Practicing to Become a Change ArtistIII Planning for the Future Organization- Meta-planning, Part I: Information- Meta-planning, Part II: Systems Thinking- Tactical Change Planning- Planning Like a Software EngineerIV What Changes Have to Happen- Components of Stable Software Engineering- Process Principles- Culture and Process- Improving Process- Requirements Principles and Processes- Changing the Requirements Process- Starting Projects Correctly- Sustaining Projects Correctly- Terminating Projects Properly- Building Faster by Building Smaller- Protecting Information Assets- Managing Design- Introducing TechnologyV EpilogueAppendicesA: Diagram of EffectsB: Satir Interaction ModelC: Software Engineering Cultural PatternsD: Control ModelsE: Three Observer PositionsF: The MBTI and TemperamentsListing of Laws, Rules, and Principles Author Index, Subject Index

Genres: Business, Computers, Technology, Software, Management, Computer Science

480 pages, Hardcover

First published May 1, 1997

About the author

Gerald Marvin Weinberg (October 27, 1933 – August 7, 2018) was an American computer scientist, author and teacher of the psychology and anthropology of computer software development.

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