Research
Failure Cases
Glossary
Reading
Room
|
Books
Topics |
Our
references |
Failed
software |
Glass
2001, 1998b, 1998a; Jones 1993, 1996, 1997, 1998;
Flowers 1996; Yourdon
1997, 1999; Neumann 1995; Brooks
1995; Boehm 1981; Pfleeger
2001, 2002 |
Organisational
process |
Humphrey
1989; Grady 1997; Zahran
1998; Emam 1999 |
Personal
and Team Processes |
Humphrey
1995, 1996, 1999 |
CMM,
SPICE, BOOTSTRAP, and ISO 9001 |
Paulk
1994; Jalote 1999; Zahran
1998; Raynus 1998; Caputo
1998; Emam 1997; Kuvaja
1994; Sanders 1995; Benediktsson
1991 |
Software
management |
Gilb
1988; Weinberg 1991, 1993, 1994, 1997; Wiegers
1996; Quirke 1996; Humphrey
1997; DeMarco 1999; Pfleeger
2002 |
Project
management (PM): general |
Redmill
1996; McConnell 1997; Royce
1998; Cockburn 1997; DeMarco
1997; Stevens 2002 |
PM:
risk |
Jones
1993; Ould 1999; Koller
1999 |
PM:
estimating and sizing |
Boehm
1981, 2000; Jones 1998 |
Measurement |
Florac
1999; Burr 1995; Grady 1992,
1998; Kan 1995; Goodman
1992; Fenton 1998; Garmus
1995; Pulford 1995; van
Solingen 1999 |
Requirements |
Robertson
1999; Gause 1989; Kovitz
1998; Sommerville 1997; Graham
1998; Schneider 1998; Leffingwell
1999 |
Software
quality: general |
Jones
1997; Sanders 1994; Horch
1996; Ginac 1997; Kaplan C
1994 |
Software
quality: peer reviews and inspections |
Gilb
1993; Freedman 1990 |
Software
quality: verification and validation |
Rakitin
1997 |
Software
quality: testing |
Hetzel
1993; Perry 1995; Kit 1995;
Black 1999; Koomen 1999;
Perry 1997; Fewster 1999;
Dustin 1999 |
Configuration
management |
Kelly
1995 |
Software
development: general |
McCarthy
1995; McConnell 1996; Maguire
1994; Yourdon 1997; Jacobson
1999; Graham 1997; Krutchen
2000; Stapleton 1997 |
Software
development: reuse |
Bassett
1996; Reifer 1994; Karlsson
1995; Jacobson 1997; Poulin
1996; Tracz 1995 |
Maintenance |
Pigoski
1996 |
General
software topics |
Brooks
1995; DeMarco 1995; Britcher
1999; Maguire 1998; Cusumano
1997; Hoch 1999 |
General
management topics |
Keen
1997; NcNair 1995; Kaplan
1996; Brown 1996 |
General
quality topics |
Crosby
1993; Deming 2000; Heaphy
1995; Harry 1999; Born 1994;
Messmarz 1999 |
- [Bassett
1996] Paul Bassett 1996. Framing Software Reuse: Lessons from the
Real World. Prentice Hall, ISBN 013327859X. Textbook binding 384
pages
- [Black
1999] Rex Black 1999. Managing the Testing Process. Microsoft
Press, ISBN 073560584X. Paperback 381 pages
- [Benediktsson
1991] Oddur Benediktsson (editor) 1991. Modeling a Software Quality
Handbook (MSQH). Technological Institute of Iceland, Reykjavík.
ISBN 9979900407. Paperback 91 pages.
- [Boehm
1981] Barry W. Boehm, (1981). Software Engineering Economics.
Prentice-Hall.
- [Boehm
2000] Barry W. Boehm, et al. (2000). Software Cost Estimation with
COCOMO II. Prentice-Hall.
- [Born
1994] Gary Born 1994. Process Management to Quality Improvement:
the Way to Design, Document and Re-Engineer Business Systems. John
Wiley, ISBN 0471942839. Hardcover 304 pages
- [Britcher
1999] Robert Britcher, Robert Glass 1999. The Limits of Software:
People, Projects and Perspectives. Addison Wesley, ISBN 0201433230.
Textbook Binding 213 pages
- [Brooks
1995] Frederick Brooks 1995. The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software
Engineering (2nd edition). Addison Wesley, ISBN 0201835959. Textbook
binding 322 pages
- [Brown
1996] Mark Brown 1996. Keeping Score: Using the Right Metrics to
Drive World-Class Performance. Quality resources, ISBN 0814403271.
Hardcover 198 pages
- [Burr
1995] Adrian Burr, Mal Owen 1995. Statistical Methods for Software
Quality: Using Metrics to Control Process and Product Quality. ITP
New Media, ISBN 185032171X. Paperback
- [Caputo
1998] Caputo, Kim. CMM Implementation Guide Choreographing Software
Process Improvement. 1998, Addison Wesley, ISBN 0201379384. Textbook
binding 319 pages
- [Cockburn
1997] Cockburn, Alistair. Surviving Object-Oriented Projects: a Managers
Guide. 1997, Addison Wesley, ISBN 0201498340. Textbook binding 250
pages
- [Constantine
1995] Constantine, Larry. Constantine on Peopleware. 1995, Prentice
Hall, ISBN 0133319768. Textbook Binding 219 pages
- [Crosby
1993] Philip Crosby 1993. Quality is Free. Signet Books, ISBN
0451625854. Paperback 288 pages
- [Cusumano
1997] Michael Cusumano, Richard Selby 1997. Microsoft Secrets.
HarperCollins, ISBN 0006387780. Paperback 512 pages
- [DeMarco
1995] Tom DeMarco 1995. Why Does Software Cost So Much? Dorset
House, ISBN 093263334X. Paperback 248 pages
- [DeMarco
1997] Tom DeMarco 1997. The Deadline: a Novel About Project Management,
Dorset House, ISBN 0932633390. Paperback
- [DeMarco
1999] DeMarco, Tom, Tim Lister. Peopleware: Productive Projects and
Teams (2nd edition). 1999, Dorset House, ISBN 0932633439. Paperback
- [Deming
2000] W. Edwards Deming 2000. Out of the Crises. MIT Press; ISBN:
0262541157. Paperback. 507 pages
- [Dustin
1999] Elfriede Dustin, Jeff Rashka, John Paul 1999. Automated Software
Testing. Addison Wesley, ISBN 0201432870. Paperback, 400 pages
- [Emam
1997] Emam, Khaled El, Jean-Normand Drouin (editors). SPICE: the
Theory and Practice of Software Process Improvement and Capability Determination.
1997, Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers, ISBN 0818677988.
Hardcover 450 pages
- [Emam
1999] Emam, Khaled El (editor). Elements of Software Process Assessment
and Improvement. 1999, Institute of Electrical & Electronic
Engineers, ISBN 0818685239. Hardcover 384 pages
- [Fenton
1998] Norman Fenton 1998. Software Metrics: a Rigorous and Practical
Approach. Brooks/Cole Publishing, ISBN 0534954251. Paperback 649
pages
- [Fewster
1999] Mark Fewster, Dorothy Graham 1999. Software Test Automation.
Addison Wesley, ISBN 0201331403. Paperback 600 pages
- [Florac
1999] William Florac, Anita Carleton 1999. Measuring the Software
Process. Addison Wesley, ISBN 0201604442. Hardcover 304 pages
- [Flowers
1996] Stephen Flowers, (1996). Software Failure: Management Failure.
John Wiley.
- [Freedman
1990] Daniel Freedman, Gerald Weinberg 1990. Handbook of Walkthroughs,
Inspections and Technical Reviews: Evaluating Programs, Projects and
Products. Dorset House, ISBN 0932633196. Hardcover
- [Garmus
1995] David Garmus, David Herron 1995. Measuring the Software Process:
a Practical Guide to Functional Measurements. Prentice Hall, ISBN
0133490025. Textbook binding 235 pages
- [Gause
1989] Donald Gause, Gerald Weinberg. 1989. Exploring Requirements:
Quality Before Design. Dorset House, ISBN 0932633137. Hardcover
- [Gilb
1988] Gilb, Tom. Principles of Software Engineering Management.
1988, Addison Wesley, ISBN 0201192462. Paperback 476 pages.
- [Gilb
1993] Tom Gilb, Dorothy Graham 1993. Software Inspection. Addison
Wesley. ISBN 0201631814. Paperback 400 pages
- [Ginac
1997] Frank Ginac 1997. Customer Oriented Software Quality Assurance.
Prentice Hall, ISBN 0135714648. Paperback 208 pages
- [Ginac
1999] Ginac, Frank. Creating and Leading High Performance Software
Development Teams. 1999, Prentice Hall, ISBN 0130850837. Paperback
285 pages
- [Glass
1998a] Robert L. Glass, Computing Calamities, (1998) Prentice
Hall; ISBN: 0-13-082862-9
- [Glass
1998b] Robert L. Glass, Software Runaways: "Lessons learned
from massive software project failures", Prentice Hall, 1998,
ISBN 0-13-673443-X.
- [Glass
2001] Robert L. Glass, Computing Failure.com: War Stories from the
Electronic Revolution, Prentice Hall, ISBN 0 13 091739 7, 2001
- [Goodman
1992] Paul Goodman 1992. Practical Implementation of Software Metrics.
McGraw Hill, ISBN 0077076656. Hardcover 240 pages
- [Grady
1992] Grady, Robert. (1992). Practical Software Metrics for Project
Management & Process Improvement. Prentice-Hall
- [Grady
1997] Grady, Robert. Successful Software Process Improvement 1997,
Prentice Hall, ISBN 0136266231. Hardcover 350 pages
- [Grady
1998] Robert Grady and Debra Caswell 1998. Software Metrics: Establishing
A Company-Wide Program. Prentice-Hall. ISBN 0138218447. 288 pages
- [Graham
1997] Ian Graham, Brian Henderson-Sellers, Houman Younessi 1997. The
Open Process Specification. Addison Wesley, ISBN 0201331330. Hardcover
336 pages
- [Graham
1998] Ian Graham 1998. Requirements Engineering and Rapid Development.
Addison-Wesley, ISBN 0201360470. Hardcover 224 pages
- [Harry
1999] Mikel Harry, Richard Schroeder 1999. Six Sigma: the Breakthrough
Management Strategy Revolutionising the Worlds Top Corporations.
Currency Doubleday, ISBN 0385494378. Hardcover 300 pages
- [Heaphy
1995] Maureen Heaphy, Gregory Gruska 1995. The Malcolm Baldrige National
Quality Award: a Yardstick for Quality Growth, Addison Wesley, ISBN
020163368X. Textbook Binding 440 pages
- [Hetzel
1993] William Hetzel 1993. The Complete Guide to Software Testing.
John Wiley, ISBN 0471565679. Hardcover 284 pages
- [Hoch
1999] Detlev Hoch (editor) 1999. Secrets of Software Success: Management
Insights from 100 Software Firms Around the World. Harvard Business
School Press, ISBN 1578511054. Hardcover 256 pages
- [Horch
1996] John Horch 1996. Practical Guide to Software Quality Management.
Artech House, ISBN 0890068658. Hardcover 246 pages
- [Humphrey
1989] Humphrey, Watts. Managing the Software Process, 1989, Addison
Wesley, ISBN 0201180952, Hardcover 450 pages
- [Humphrey
1995] Humphrey, Watts. A Discipline for Software Engineering.
1995, Addison Wesley, ISBN 0201546108. Hardcover 448 pages
- [Humphrey
1996] Humphrey, Watts. Introduction to the Personal Software Process.
1996, Addison Wesley, ISBN 0201548097. Textbook binding 336 pages
- [Humphrey
1997] Humphrey, Watts. Managing Technical People. 1997, Addison
Wesley, ISBN 0201545977. Paperback 336 pages
- [Humphrey
1999] Humphrey, Watts. Introduction to the Team Software Process.
1999, Addison Wesley, ISBN 020147719X. Hardcover 463 pages
- [Jacobson
1997] Ivar Jacobson, Martin Griss, Patrik Jonsson 1997. Software
Reuse. Addison Wesley, ISBN 0201924765. Hardcover 560 pages
- [Jacobson
1999] Ivar Jacobson, Grady Booch, James Rumbaugh 1999. The Unified
Software Development Process. Addison Wesley, ISBN 0201571692. Paperback
512 pages
- [Jalote
1999] Jalote, Pankaj. CMM in Practice: Processes for Executing Software
Projects at Infosys. 1999, Addison Wesley, ISBN 0201616262. Hardcover
400 pages
- [Jones
1993] Capers Jones 1993. Assessment and Control of Software Risks,
Yourdon Press, ISBN 0137414064 Hardcover 619 pages
- [Jones
1996] Capers Jones 1996. Patterns of Software System Failures and
Success. Thomson, ISBN 185032804-8.
- [Jones
1997] Capers Jones 1997. Software Quality: Analysis and Guidelines
for Success. International Thomson Publishing, ISBN 1850328676.
Paperback 492 pages
- [Jones
1998] Capers Jones 1998. Estimating Software Costs. McGraw Hill,
ISBN 0079130941. Hardcover
- [Kan
1995] Stephen Kan 1995. Metrics and Models in Software Quality Engineering.
Addison Wesley, ISBN 0201633396. Hardcover 288 pages
- [Kaplan
C 1994] Craig Kaplan, Ralph Clark, Victor Tang 1994. Secrets of Software
Quality McGraw Hill, ISBN 0079117953. Hardcover 383 pages
- [Kaplan
1996] Robert Kaplan, David Norton 1996. The Balanced Scorecard: Translating
Strategy into Action. Harvard Business School Press, ISBN 0875846513.
Hardcover 322 pages
- [Karlsson
1995] Even-Andre Karlsson (editor) 1995. Software Reuse. John
Wiley, ISBN 0471958190. Paperback 528 pages
- [Keen
1997] Peter Keen 1997. The Process Edge: Creating Value Where it
Counts. Harvard Business School Press, ISBN 0875845886. Hardcover
192 pages
- [Kelly
1995] Marion Kelly 1995. Configuration Management. McGraw Hill,
ISBN 0077079779. Hardcover 224 pages
- [Kit
1995] Ed Kit 1995. Software Testing in the Real World. Addison-Wesley,
ISBN 0201877562. Paperback 256 pages
- [Koller
1999] Glenn Koller 1999. Risk Assessment and Decision making in Business
and Industry - A Practical Guide. CRC Press, ISBN 0849302684. Hardcover
239 pages
- [Koomen
1999] Tim Koomen, Martin Pol 1999. Test Process Improvement.
Longman, ISBN 0201596245. Hardcover 192 pages
- [Kovitz
1998] Benjamin Kovitz 1998. Practical Software Requirements: a Manual
of Content and Style. Manning Publications, ISBN 18884777597. Paperback
444 pages
- [Krutchen
2000] Phillipe Krutchen 2000. The Rational Unified Process. Longman,
ISBN 0201707101. Paperback 272 pages
- [Leffingwell
1999] Dean Leffingwell, Don Widrig 1999. Managing Software Requirements:
a Unified Approach. Addison Wesley, ISBN 0201615932. Hardcover 528
pages
- [Kuvaja
1994] Pasi Kuvaja, et al. 1994. Software Process Assessment and Improvement:
The Bootstrap Approach. Blackwell Publishers
- [Macaulay
1996] Macaulay L. A.(1996). Requirements Engineering. Great Britain:
Springer-Verlag London Limited. Neumann, Peter G., Computer-Related
Risks, (1994), Addison Wesley, ISBN: 0-20-155805-X
- [Maguire
1994] Steve Maguire 1994. Debugging the Development Process: Practical
Strategies for Staying Focused, Hitting Ship Dates and Building Solid
Teams. Microsoft Press, ISBN 1556156502. Paperback 183 pages
- [Maguire
1998] Steve Maguire 1998. Software Engineering Classics. Microsoft
Press, ISBN 0735605971. Hardcover
- [McCarthy
1995] Jim McCarthy 1995. Dynamics of Software Development. Microsoft
Press, ISBN 1556158238. Paperback 184 pages
- [McConnell
1996] Steve McConnell 1996. Rapid Development: Taming Wild Software
Schedules. Microsoft Press, ISBN 1556159005. Paperback 647 pages
- [McConnell
1997] McConnell, Steve. Software Project Survival Guide. 1997,
Microsoft Press, ISBN 1572316217. Paperback 250 pages
- [Messmarz
1999] Messmarz, R, Tully, C, 1999. Better Software Practice for Business
Benefit, IEEE Computer Society, Los Alamitos, California, 393 pages
- [NcNair
1995] C. NcNair, Kathleen Leibfried 1995. Benchmarking: A Tool for
Continuous Improvement. John Wiley, ISBN 0471132063. Paperback 368
pages
- [Neumann
1995] Peter G. Neumann 1995. Computer-Related Risks. Addison-Wesley.
Paperback 367 pages
- [Ould
1995] Ould, Martyn, Business Processes: Modelling and Analysis for
Re-Engineering and Improvement. 1995, John Wiley, ISBN 0471953520.
Hardcover 224 pages
- [Ould
1999] Martyn Ould 1999. Managing Software Quality and Business Risk.
John Wiley, ISBN 047199782X. Paperback 392 pages
- [Parkinson
1995] Parkinson, John. 60 Minute Software: Strategies for Accelerating
the Information Systems Delivery Process. 1995, John Wiley, ISBN
0471115037. Paperback 302 pages
- [Paulk
1994] Paulk, Mark, Charles Weber, Bill Curtis, Mary Beth Chrissis. The
Capability Maturity Model for Software. 1994, Addison Wesley, ISBN
0201546647. Hardcover 450 pages
- [Perry
1995] William Perry 1995. Effective Methods for Software Testing
(2nd edition). John Wiley, ISBN 0471060976. Paperback 560 pages
- [Perry
1997] William Perry, Randall Rice 1997. Surviving the Top Ten Challenges
of Software Testing: a People-Oriented Approach. Dorset House, ISBN
0932633382. Paperback
- [Pfleeger
2001] Pfleeger, Shari Lawrence. (2001). Software Engineering Theory
and Practice, 2nd ed. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall PTR.
Notes.
- [Pfleeger
2002] Pfleeger, Shari Lawrence, Hatton, Les, and Howell, Charles C.
(2002). Solid Software. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall
PTR. Notes.
- [Pigoski
1996] Thomas Pigoski 1996. Practical Software Maintenance: Best Practices
for Managing Your Software Investment. John Wiley, ISBN 0471170011.
Hardcover 384 pages
- [Poulin
1996] Jeffrey Poulin 1996. Measuring Software Reuse: Principles,
Practices and Economic Models. Addison Wesley, ISBN 0201634139.
Hardcover 195 pages
- [Pulford
1995] Kevin Pulford, Annie Combelles, Stephen Shirlaw 1995. A Quantitative
Approach to Software Management: the ami Handbook. Addison Wesley,
ISBN 0201877465. Paperback 179 pages
- [Quirke
1996] Quirke, Bill. Communicating Corporate Change. 1996, McGraw-Hill,
ISBN 0077093119. Paperback 328 pages
- [Rakitin
1997] Steven Rakitin 1997. Software Verification and Validation:
a Practitioners Guide. Artech House, ISBN 0890068895. Hardcover
240 pages
- [Raynus
1998] Raynus, Joseph. Software Process Improvement with CMM.
1998, Artech House, ISBN 0890066442. Hardcover 224 pages
- [Redmill
1996] Redmill, Felix. Software Projects. 1996, John Wiley, ISBN
0471933430. Hardcover 274 pages
- [Reifer
1994] Donald Reifer 1994. Practical Software Reuse. John Wiley,
ISBN 0471578533. Hardcover 392 pages
- [Robertson
1999] Suzanne Robertson, James Robertson 1999. Mastering the Requirements
Process. Addison Wesley, ISBN 0201360462. Hardcover 416 pages
- [Royce
1998] Walker Royce 1998. Software Project Management: a Unified Framework.
Addison Wesley, ISBN 0201309580. Hardcover 416 pages
- [Sanders
1995] Joc Sanders, Eugene Curran 1994. Software Quality: a Framework
for Success in Software Development and Support. ACM Press, ISBN
0201631989. Textbook binding 179 pages
- [Schneider
1998] Geri Schneider, Jason Winters 1998. Applying Use Cases: a Practical
Guide. Addison Wesley, ISBN 0201309815. Textbook binding 188 pages
- [Sommerville
1997] Ian Sommerville, Pete Sawyer 1997. Requirements Engineering.
John Wiley, ISBN 0471974447. paperback 404 pages
- [Stapleton
1997] Jennifer Stapleton 1997. DSDM Dynamic Systems Development Method.
Addison Wesley, ISBN 0201178893. Hardcover 163 pages
- [Stevens
2002] M. Stevens et al. (Eds.) 2002. Project Management Pathways:
A Practitioners Guide, APM Press, High Wycombe
- [Tang
1994] Victor Tang 1994. Secrets of Software Quality. Craig Kaplan,
Ralph Clark, McGraw Hill, ISBN 0079117953. Hardcover 383 pages
- [Tracz
1995] Will Tracz 1995. Confessions of a Used Program Salesman: Institutionalizing
Software Reuse. Addison Wesley, ISBN 0201633698. Textbook Binding
233 pages
- [van
Solingen 1999] Rini van Solingen, Egon Berghout 1999. The Goal/Question/Metric
Method. McGraw-Hill, ISBN 0077095537. Hardcover 280 pages
- [Walker
1998] Walker, Royce. Software Project Management: a Unified Framework.
1998, Addison Wesley, ISBN 0201309580. Hardcover 416 pages
- [Weinberg
1991] Weinberg, Gerald. Quality Software Management (4 volumes),
volume 1: Systems Thinking. 1991, Dorset House, ISBN 0932633226. Hardcover
318 pages
- [Weinberg
1993] Weinberg, Gerald. Quality Software Management (4 volumes),
volume 2: First-Order Measurement. 1993, Dorset House, ISBN 0932633242.
Hardcover 346 pages
- [Weinberg
1994] Weinberg, Gerald. Quality Software Management (4 volumes),
volume 3: Congruent Action. 1994, Dorset House, ISBN 0932633285. Hardcover
- [Weinberg
1997] Weinberg, Gerald. Quality Software Management (4 volumes),
volume 4: Anticipating Change. 1997, Dorset House, ISBN 0932633323.
Hardcover
- [Wiegers
1996] Wiegers, Karl. Creating a Software Engineering Culture.
1996, Dorset House, ISBN 0932633331. Hardcover
- [Yourdon
1997] Edward Yourdon 1997. Death March: the Complete Software Developers
Guide to Surviving Mission Impossible Projects. Prentice
Hall, ISBN 0137483104. Hardcover 260 pages
- [Yourdon
1999] Yourdon, E. (1999). Death March. Prentice Hall PTR; ISBN:
0130146595
- [Zahran
1997] Sami Zahran. (1997). Software Process Improvement. Addison-Wesley.
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