Process
Software Ownership Transfer
In those days were software development is outsourced or companies are acquired and merged frequently, the problem of transferring the ownership of applications and software is more than relevant. In his book “Software Ownership Transfer: Evolving Knowledge Transfer for the Agile World”, Vinod Sankaranarayanan, explores this topic from both a theoretical and a practical point of view. (more…)
Programming
The Rise and Fall of Software Recipes
His name is Darius Blasband and he is a codeaholic. This is how one of the first chapter of the book The Rise and Fall of Software Recipes is titled. You should therefore expect to read this book as a conversation that you could have with a colleague in his 50s around a glass of nice (Belgian) beer. There are some recipes and a lot of software in this book, but everything is written from a very personal point of view. (more…)
Quality
Software Configuration Management Handbook
This book is the third edition of the Software Configuration Management Handbook written by Alexis Leon. The first edition was first published in 2000. This books aims to explain what software configuration management is and how it should be practiced in the software development process. (more…)
Making it Big in Software
You can read on the back cover of this book “Here’s all the information you need to jumpstart your software career: the best way to get hired, move up, and blaze your way to the top!” There is certainly more marketing ambition than developer modesty in this statement. This being said, this book contains some valuable information for the computer science student of somebody who is freshly graduated and has just started his professional journey. (more…)