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Globalization, rapid technology churn, and massive economic shifts have made it more difficult than ever to deliver high-value enterprise software.

In Enterprise Software Delivery: Bringing Agility and Efficiency to the Global Software Supply Chain, IBM Distinguished Engineer Alan W. Brown guides decision-makers in understanding these new challenges, choosing today’s best solutions, and successfully anticipating future trends.

Alan presents detailed, actionable techniques for building software supply chains that improve agility and innovation while responding to growing cost pressure. Using real-world case studies, he introduces the modern global software factory, demonstrating how to integrate and leverage global outsourced teams, collaborative application lifecycle management, and cloud-based virtual infrastructures.

Drawing on his extensive experience leading IBM Rational software strategy, and consulting with IBM enterprise customers, Alan illuminates everything from software R&D to metrics. Coverage includes

    Understanding recent dramatic changes in enterprise software delivery requirements and practices
    Overcoming false assumptions, outdated data and delivery models, and inexperience with strategy, innovation, education, or research
    Incorporating integrators and partners in centers of excellence that specialize in delivering business value
    Establishing team-based practices that encourage agility, scalability, and quality
    Building adaptive software factories that integrate real-time feedback and respond rapidly to change
    Using virtualized collaborativeinfrastructure to connect worldwide teams for developing software, assembling solutions, and delivering results
    Transcending barriers related to geography, organization, skills, and culture

If you’re an enterprise software leader, strategist, or practitioner, this book can help you improve every facet of performance you care about, including agility, quality, predictability, innovation, and value.

    Paperback: 320 pages
    Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional; 1st edition (July 5, 2012)
    Language: English
    ISBN-10: 0321803019
    ISBN-13: 978-0321803016
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