Description
Cengage Managing The Software Enterprise Software Engineering And Information Systems In Context by Patrick Hall
This book provides a fresh, contemporary perspective on how best to equip enterprises with appropriate IT infrastructures and products. Readers will learn how to strategically manage the relationship between software and organisations using enduring principles. In addition, this book provides a unique insight into managing and developing personnel who work on and with software. Procurement and marshalling of software and the skills required to sustain software in the face of a changing world and requirements are also covered._x000D__x000D_This book will be invaluable for Computing and Information Systems senior undergraduate and masters students whose subject of study requires strategic consideration of software development and project management._x000D_ _x000D_
1. Introduction: Software Within the Information Society._x000D_
PART I: THE SOCIAL AND ORGANIZATIONAL CONTEXT._x000D_
2. Organization and Business Context._x000D_
3. Economic and Social Context._x000D_
4. Ethics, Codes and Standards._x000D_
5. Software and the Law._x000D_
PART II: PROCESSES FOR ACQUIRING AND EVOLVING SOFTWARE._x000D_
6. Software Acquisition._x000D_
7. Software Activities._x000D_
8. Software Processes._x000D_
9. Maintaining and Evolving Software._x000D_
PART III: MANAGING SOFTWARE PROCESSES._x000D_
10. Managing Resources._x000D_
11. Managing Work-Products and Digital Assets._x000D_
12. Managing Quality._x000D_
13. Managing Uncertainty and Risk._x000D_
14. Conclusion: The Way Forward._x000D_
Appendix A: Modelling Notations._x000D_
Appendix B: Measurement Theory._x000D_
Glossary._x000D_
Index._x000D_