| Software development for immediate success and long-term sustainability
Sustainable Software Development brings together principles
and practices for building software that is technically superior, delivers
exceptional business value, and can evolve rapidly to reflect any change
to your business or technical environment.
Kevin Tate shows how to eliminate practices that make development
unsustainable and replaces these practices with a sustainable approach
that draws on the best ideas from both agile and conventional development.
Tate demonstrates how to balance rapid releases and long-term sustainability,
achieving both rich functionality and superior quality. You'll learn
how to build a development organization that is more productive and
can continually improve its capability to handle complexity and change.
Writing for developers, architects, project leaders, and other software
team members, Tate shows how to:
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Take control of your development environment, so you can outship
your competitors, leveraging new technologies and responding to
new business opportunities
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Maintain a consistent pace that optimally balances short- versus
long-term requirements
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Keep your code base in a "near-shippable" state between releases
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Prevent defects, rather than just recognizing and fixing them
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Invest continually and cost-effectively in software design improvements
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Leverage the fundamentals of the craft of software development
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Integrate sustainable processes with Agile and traditional methodologies
"Over the years I have seen the software development pendulum swing
from one extreme to the other, as deficiencies in 'best practices'
at one end of the spectrum spawned a new set of 'best practices' at
the opposite end. Kevin Tate's book has finally brought the pendulum
to a screeching halt, right about dead center. This book provides a
balanced and practical guide to what's important if your goal is to
develop software that lasts."
—Mary Poppendieck, Poppendieck.LLC. Author
of "Lean Software Development"
"1) In this very practical and accessible book interspersed with real-world
examples and personal opinions, Kevin has distilled his years of developing
quality software into a set of principles and practices that have been
proven to work. If you are thinking of introducing an agile development
environment (ADE) into your organization or of improving the one you
already have, this book will help you clearly understand the benefits
of a sustainable ADE, establish the practices to make it happen and
coach you through the follow-up required to change the culture of your
organization to make sure the changes take hold.
I am currently faced with exactly this challenge and this book has
already given me several ideas I am looking forward to trying out.
2) In an industry plagued with missed deadlines despite long overtime
hours, this book offers a refreshing alternative: a set of guiding
principles and simple practices to follow that allow you to get the
job done by working smarter, not harder. Drawing on the author's extensive
experience developing quality software, the book clearly explains the
principles behind a sustainable agile development environment, why
it works, the practices to make it happen and the follow through required
to turn these practices into habits."
—Peter Schoeler, Technical Director, Artificial
Mind & Movement
"It's a familiar scene—the schedule's tight, people are putting
in heroic efforts to get everything done, then at the last minute a
change request comes in that wipes out the gains you had finally managed
to make in meeting your ship date. Looks like it's pizza at your desk
for the weekend again! An unfortunate situation to be in but a pattern
that repeats itself all too often. "Sustainable Software Development" offers
hope to break this cycle. It shows how a change in mindset can free
you from the tyranny of unrealistic expectations and brings development
realities out onto the table for everyone to see. By following these
techniques you will be able to define and manage a software development
environment that will work for the long haul."
—Kevin Picott
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