Software Endgames

Author : Robert Galen
Publisher : Addison-Wesley
ISBN 13 : 0133488446
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Software Endgames written by Robert Galen and published by Addison-Wesley. This book was released on 2013-07-15 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the digital version of the printed book (Copyright © 2005). Take Control of Your Project in the Final Stage of Software Development In software development, projects are won or lost during the project endgame—that final stage of software development between release for testing and release to customers. Software Endgames: Eliminating Defects, Controlling Change, and the Countdown to On-Time Delivery presents the core strategies for delivering working software to your customers. Focusing solely on the endgame, the book provides hard-won, hands-on strategies and practices for delivering real value. In the endgame, effective management and repair of defects is crucial. Experienced project manager and consultant Robert Galen shows readers how to conduct effective defect triage -- analyzing, understanding, and categorizing defects—in preparation for scheduling repairs. Readers will learn how to transform the endgame from a time of rampant defects and utter chaos into a time of focused repairs, effective teamwork, and change management. You'll set release criteria, establish endgame release plans, and utilize a variety of change reduction and endgame management techniques. Topics include developing various forms of release criteria and leveraging them to guide your teams' efforts strategies for reducing the rate of change change control and triage techniques that lead to efficient and effective defect repair decisions alternative methods of defect repair for decision-making flexibility setting up a defect-tracking system, managing defects and gathering standard metrics for endgame defect trending techniques for repair planning and efficiency agile extensions -- how to apply these techniques to agile projects how to "mine" your endgames for overall software development improvements

Author : Robert Galen
Publisher : Pearson Education
ISBN 13 : 0133492028
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Software Endgames written by Robert Galen and published by Pearson Education. This book was released on 2013 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the digital version of the printed book (Copyright © 2005). Take Control of Your Project in the Final Stage of Software Development In software development, projects are won or lost during the project endgame-that final stage of software development between release for testing and release to customers. Software Endgames: Eliminating Defects, Controlling Change, and the Countdown to On-Time Delivery presents the core strategies for delivering working software to your customers. Focusing solely on the endgame, the book provides hard-won, hands-on strategies and practices for delivering real value. In the endgame, effective management and repair of defects is crucial. Experienced project manager and consultant Robert Galen shows readers how to conduct effective defect triage -- analyzing, understanding, and categorizing defects-in preparation for scheduling repairs. Readers will learn how to transform the endgame from a time of rampant defects and utter chaos into a time of focused repairs, effective teamwork, and change management. You'll set release criteria, establish endgame release plans, and utilize a variety of change reduction and endgame management techniques. Topics include developing various forms of release criteria and leveraging them to guide your teams' efforts strategies for reducing the rate of change change control and triage techniques that lead to efficient and effective defect repair decisions alternative methods of defect repair for decision-making flexibility setting up a defect-tracking system, managing defects and gathering standard metrics for endgame defect trending techniques for repair planning and efficiency agile extensions -- how to apply these techniques to agile projects how to "mine" your endgames for overall software development improvements.

Author : Donald J. Reifer
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118650743
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Software War Stories written by Donald J. Reifer and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-10-14 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive, practical book on software management that dispels real-world issues through relevant case studies Software managers inevitably will meet obstacles while trying to deliver quality products and provide value to customers, often with tight time restrictions. The result: Software War Stories. This book provides readers with practical advice on how to handle the many issues that can arise as a software project unfolds. It utilizes case studies that focus on what can be done to establish and meet reasonable expectations as they occur in government, industrial, and academic settings. The book also offers important discussions on both traditional and agile methods as well as lean development concepts. Software War Stories: Covers the basics of management as applied to situations ranging from agile projects to large IT projects with infrastructure problems Includes coverage of topics ranging from planning, estimating, and organizing to risk and opportunity management Uses twelve case studies to communicate lessons learned by the author in practice Offers end-of-chapter exercises, sample solutions, and a blog for providing updates and answers to readers' questions Software War Stories: Case Studies in Software Management mentors practitioners, software engineers, students and more, providing relevant situational examples encountered when managing software projects and organizations.

Author : Allen Kent
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 9780824720681
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science written by Allen Kent and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2000-09-21 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the 68th volume (supplement 31) in a series which examines library and information science.

Author : Mark Dvoretsky
Publisher : SCB Distributors
ISBN 13 : 1888690887
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dvoretsky's Endgame Manual written by Mark Dvoretsky and published by SCB Distributors. This book was released on 2010-11-12 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first edition of Dvoretsky's Endgame Manual was immediately recognized by novice and master alike as one of the best books ever published on the endgame. The second edition is revised and enlarged - now over 400 pages - covering all the most important concepts required for endgame mastery. "I am sure that those who study this work carefully will not only play the endgame better, but overall, their play will improve. One of the secrets of the Russian chess school is now before you, dear reader!" - From the Foreword to the First Edition by Grandmaster Artur Yusupov "Going through this book will certainly improve your endgame knowledge, but just as important, it will also greatly improve your ability to calculate variations... What really impresses me is the deep level of analysis in the book... All I can say is: This is a great book. I hope it will bring you as much pleasure as it has me." - From the Preface to the First Edition by International Grandmaster Jacob Aagaard Here's what they had to say about the First Edition: "Dvoretsky's Endgame Manual ... may well be the chess book of the year... [It] comes close to an ultimate one-volume manual on the endgame." - Lubomir Kavalek in his chess column of December 1, 2003 in the Washington Post. "Dvoretsky's Endgame Manual is quite simply a masterpiece of research and insight. It is a tremendous contribution to endgame literature, certainly the most important one in many years, and destined to be a classic of the literature (if it isn't already one). The famous trainer Mark Dvoretsky has put together a vast number of examples that he has not only collected, but analysed and tested with some of the world's strongest players. This is a particularly important book from the standpoint of clarifying, correcting, and extending the theory of endings. Most of all, Dvoretsky's analysis is staggering in its depth and accuracy." - John Watson, reviewing DEM at The Week In Chess 2003 Book of the Year - JeremySilman.com 2003 Book of the Year - Seagaard Chess Reviews: "This is an extraordinary good chess book. To call this the best book on endgames ever written seems to be an opinion shared by almost all reviewers and commentators. And I must say that I am not to disagree." - Erik Sobjerg

Author : Karsten Muller
Publisher : Gambit Publications
ISBN 13 : 9781904600862
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How to Play Chess Endgames written by Karsten Muller and published by Gambit Publications. This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this companion volume to Fundamental Chess Endings, M�ller and Pajeken focus on the practical side of playing endgames. They cover all aspects of strategic endgames, with particular emphasis on thinking methods, and ways to create difficulties for opponents over the board. Using hundreds of outstanding examples from modern practice, the authors explain not only how to conduct 'classical' endgame tasks, such as exploiting an extra pawn or more active pieces, but also how to handle the extremely unbalanced endings that often arise from the dynamic openings favoured nowadays. All varieties of endgames are covered, and there are more than 200 exercises for the reader, together with full solutions. Major topics include: * Basic Principles and Methods * Activity * Schematic Thinking * The Fight for the Initiative * Prophylaxis and Preventing Counterplay * The Bishop-Pair in the Endgame * Domination * The Art of Defence * Typical Mistakes * Rules of Thumb

Author : Allen Kent
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 9780824722975
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of Computer Science and Technology written by Allen Kent and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2001-05-22 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume investigates automated scheduling and course scheduling at the University of Waikato to traffic control for real-time VBR services in ATM network.

Author : Lisa Crispin
Publisher : Pearson Education
ISBN 13 : 0321534468
Total Pages : 576 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Agile Testing written by Lisa Crispin and published by Pearson Education. This book was released on 2009 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crispin and Gregory define agile testing and illustrate the tester's role with examples from real agile teams. They teach you how to use the agile testing quadrants to identify what testing is needed, who should do it, and what tools might help. The book chronicles an agile software development iteration from the viewpoint of a tester and explains the seven key success factors of agile testing.

Author : Robert Sabourin
Publisher : Notion Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Charting the Course written by Robert Sabourin and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2024-03-29 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Turbulent development projects experience daily changes in requirements. Keeping your testing efforts on track while reacting to rapidly shifting priorities, technologies, and user needs can often feel nearly insurmountable. Charting the Course: Coming up with Great Test Ideas Just in Time equips you with effective techniques to implement software testing in chaotic environments. You will learn practical, dynamic test planning and scheduling, along with exploratory, scripted, automated, and performance testing, which can be successfully and systematically implemented in various contexts. This book focuses on generating a wide variety of relevant and powerful testing ideas that can be applied to real projects using Agile, Iterative, Waterfall, or Hybrid development environments. Readers will explore: • The foundation for thousands of potentially relevant testing ideas • Test ideas oriented toward software capabilities, based on expected functionality • Test ideas based on usage scenarios, addressing user needs • Test ideas based on failure modes, challenging software design and environment dependencies • Numerous non-functional software attributes that pose a risk to software value • Creative testing ideas that uncover significant bugs through lateral thinking • Additional sources of important test ideas, including Business Rules, Combinations, States, Data, Environments, Unit Tests, Taxonomies, Test Oracles, Creative Ideas, Path Test Ideas, Boundary Test Ideas, Automation Test Ideas, and Regression Test Ideas • Formulating charters to guide and direct software testing efforts Enjoy Charting the Course and learn how to achieve exceptional testing outcomes even in the most challenging and chaotic contexts.

Author : Paul Keres
Publisher : Batsford Books
ISBN 13 : 184994539X
Total Pages : 617 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Practical Chess Endings written by Paul Keres and published by Batsford Books. This book was released on 2018-10-26 with total page 617 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An updated edition of Paul Keres' classic endgame instructor, designed specifically for practical players with over 500 extra diagrams to facilitate learning and memorisation of critical lines of endgame play. It is an essential practical book, for all chess players, from one of the world's greatest grandmasters. Keres remained an elite grandmaster throughout his life and is widely regarded as one of the s strongest ever players not to have won the world chess champion. His book is a comprehensive guide to the precise handling of all basic endgame positions. It features logical step-by-step explanations of procedures required to obtain the best possible results from frequently occurring queen, rook, bishop, knight and pawn endings. It includes commentaries on the final stages of selected tournament games, which demonstrate the art of favourable transposition from complex to clear-cut endgames.