*For IS (Information Systems) managers and engineers and anyone in the governmental and commercial sectors responsible for software productivity and quality and project planning and budgeting. *The active reuse of software is one of the most promising avenues for a dramatic increase in software productivity. This handbook offers a managerial approach to software reuse -- its advantages and disadvantages, cost-justification, current reuse efforts, and strategies to implement and deploy reuse in a corporate environment. Shows how to perform a detailed cost/benefit analysis to determine whether software reuse is economically appropriate for an organization; apply a proven reuse implementation strategy complete with tools (classification scheme and software workproducts library), training tactics, and standards; follow guidelines for incorporating reuse in each stage of the traditional software development life cycle; and tackle tough managerial challenges such as labor issues, productivity measurement, organizational structure, motivation/incentives for engineers, and legal implications of software reuse.
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"A very important book on how to improve software development productivity through reuse of software development products. Wayne Lim has done it and is sharing his insights. Exhaustive and meticulous in its coverage, this is the definitive book on how to implement this approach. His book is to the Information Age what process automation was to the Industrial Age." -- Dr. F. Warren McFarlan, Albert H. Gordon Professor of Business Administration and Senior Associate Dean, External Relations, Harvard University Graduate School of Business Administration
"In this book, Wayne Lim addresses the key problems of reuse economics and reuse technology transfer in the best way; with data, case studies, and empirically based guidance. Wayne draws on a Harvard M.B.A., industrial experience at Hewlett-Packard, and consulting experience to create a valuable reference for managers trying to make reuse pay off." -- Dr. William Frakes, Associate Professor and Director, Computer Science Department, Virginia Tech and Chair, IEEE TCSE Reuse Committee
"Software reuse researchers and practitioners have learned that success with software reuse requires careful attention to many issues, both non-technical and technical. Foremost, success requires a commitment by upper management, followed by careful planning and execution by middle management. Reuse is a business and management issue - reusable software becomes a corporate asset, to be invested in, improved, and used consistently. Wayne has always been tremendously concerned about how reuse would be managed as a business strategy. This excellent book reflects his care and attention to detail, focussing squarely on the key management, measurement and economic issues. It is a superb handbook, providing a comprehensive set of tools, models and metrics needed to assess the current state of reuse, develop economic models and plan a reuse program. But the book offers far more. It provides a coherent and illuminating study of how various trends in business, manufacturing, economics and organization design have influenced the understanding of how to effect a successful reuse program. -- Dr. Martin L. Griss, Senior Laboratory Scientist, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Co-author, "Software Reuse: Architecture, Process and Organization for Business Success"
"In this book, Wayne Lim addresses the key problems of reuse economics and reuse technology transfer in the best way; with data, case studies, and empirically based guidance. Wayne draws on a Harvard M.B.A., industrial experience at Hewlett-Packard, and consulting experience to create a valuable reference for managers trying to make reuse pay off." -- Dr. William Frakes, Associate Professor and Director, Computer Science Department, Virginia Tech and Chair, IEEE TCSE Reuse Committee
"Software reuse researchers and practitioners have learned that success with software reuse requires careful attention to many issues, both non-technical and technical. Foremost, success requires a commitment by upper management, followed by careful planning and execution by middle management. Reuse is a business and management issue - reusable software becomes a corporate asset, to be invested in, improved, and used consistently. Wayne has always been tremendously concerned about how reuse would be managed as a business strategy. This excellent book reflects his care and attention to detail, focussing squarely on the key management, measurement and economic issues. It is a superb handbook, providing a comprehensive set of tools, models and metrics needed to assess the current state of reuse, develop economic models and plan a reuse program. But the book offers far more. It provides a coherent and illuminating study of how various trends in business, manufacturing, economics and organization design have influenced the understanding of how to effect a successful reuse program. -- Dr. Martin L. Griss, Senior Laboratory Scientist, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Co-author, "Software Reuse: Architecture, Process and Organization for Business Success"
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The active reuse of software is one of the most promising avenues for a dramatic increase in software productivity. This handbook offers a managerial approach to software reuse -- its advantages and disadvantages, cost-justification, current reuse efforts, and strategies to implement and deploy reuse in a corporate environment. Shows how to perform a detailed cost/benefit analysis to determine whether software reuse is economically appropriate for an organization; apply a proven reuse implementation strategy complete with tools (classification scheme and software workproducts library), training tactics, and standards; follow guidelines for incorporating reuse in each stage of the traditional software development life cycle; and tackle tough managerial challenges such as labor issues, productivity measurement, organizational structure, motivation/incentives for engineers, and legal implications of software reuse.
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Comprehensive and authoritative text on Software Reuse,
By Steve Townsend - at Intel Corporation (Utah, USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Managing Software Reuse (Paperback)
Managing Software Reuse provides procedures, approaches, insight and examples for a corporate reuse strategy. The author seems to avoid current technologies (like COM and CORBA) and focus at a broad higher level.-These views are my own and do not represent the views of Intel Corporation.
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A comprehensive and extremely well researched reference.,
By Dr. Jeffrey S. Poulin (Endicott, New York) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Managing Software Reuse (Paperback)
Wayne Lim has pulled together all the major works in the field of software reuse and organized them into a comprehensive and authoritative reference that every person interested in reuse will find essential and indispensable!
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Best book I have read on this topic.,
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