Book details of 'Survival in the Software Jungle (Artech House Professional Development and Technology Management Library)'

Title	Survival in the Software Jungle (Artech House Professional Development and Technology Management Library)
Author(s)	Mark Norris
ISBN	0890068313
Language	English
Published	October 1995
Publisher	Artech House

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Reviewer Rob Slade wrote:
This book is a compilation of the common "received wisdom" in regard to large scale software projects, and how not to let them get out of control. Although often repetitive (get your specifications done first), and rarely insightful, it serves as a useful reminder of the basics in project development. Norris states that this book is for the user, rather than the developer, but the book often assumes too much background in the software industry for this to be truly the case. There are a great many tables and figures in the book, but they rarely support the adjacent material, often being much less comprehensible than Norris' text. (The second figure in the book seems to imply that "commodity" software is of low value to the company in both the short and long term, which flies in the face of examples like word processing and email.) Possibly the most valuable, and certainly the most enjoyable, section of the book is Appendix A3, which collects some of the humour that has surrounded software development since its inception. copyright Robert M. Slade, 1996
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