Strategic Software Engineering : An Interdisciplinary Approach

The pervasiveness of software in business makes it crucial that software engineers and developers understand how software development impacts an entire organization.

Strategic Software Engineering: An Interdisciplinary Approach presents software engineering as a strategic, business-oriented, interdisciplinary endeavor, rather than simply a technical process, as it has been described in previous publications.The book addresses technical, scientific, and management aspects of software development in a way that is accessible to a wide audience.

It provides a detailed, critical review of software development models and processes, followed with a strategic assessment of how process models evolved over time and how to improve them.

The authors then focus on the relation between problem-solving techniques and strategies for effectively confronting real-world business problems.

They also analyze the impact of interdisciplinary factors on software development, including the role of people and business economics.

The book concludes with a brief look at specialized system development.The diverse backgrounds of the authors, encompassing computer science, information systems, technology, and bu