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Unzählige kleine und große Entscheidungen prägen IT-Projekte. Sie beziehen sich auf ganz unterschiedliche Themen: die Priorisierung von Anforderungen, das Design und die Architektur oder auch das Vorgehen im Team. Allerdings werden Entscheidungen oft nicht so rational getroffen, wie dies eigentlich wünschenswert wäre. Die Ursachen dafür sind vielfältig. Dieses Buch analysiert die möglichen Ursachen und schlägt praxisorientierte Instrumente vor, mit denen wir alleine oder im Team zu besseren Entscheidungen gelangen können. Das Buch kombiniert dabei Erkenntnisse aus Entscheidungstheorie und Kognitionswissenschaft mit bewährten Praktiken aus IT-Projekten – allem voran aus dem agilen Umfeld. Kernpunkte sind: - Etablieren von Praktiken für rationale Argumentationen - Methoden, um rationale Entscheidungen im Team zu fördern - Einsatz quantitativer Verfahren zur Untermauerung von Entscheidungen - Einbetten von Entscheidungen in IT-Prozesse

A practical go-to reference for Web developers programming custom software for Web sites Most advanced Web sites or Web platforms have specific requirements that go beyond standard functionality; to meet such requirements, it's often necessary to develop custom software. This is the point where code and content meet, and where this book begins. Where Code and Content Meet presents a collection of real-world, tried and tested patterns that address content-related aspects of custom software development for advanced Web sites or platforms. Mined from a series of successful Web projects, the patterns represent collected expertise of designers from several software development teams and serve as a practical guide to designing your own content-related custom components for your Web project. The patterns are independent of specific tools and technologies, and focus on non-functional requirements, with the overall goal of defining sustainable software architecture. Presents a collection of tried and tested software patterns mined from a series of successful Web projects Includes checklists for managing Web projects and real-world patterns from PLoP conferences Illustrates use of software patterns through a case study that runs throughout the book and gradually evolves as the patterns are applied to it, one by one Covers content modeling and content organization, navigation, findability, personalization, and user participation By employing the software patterns included in Where Code and Content Meet, you'll learn how to program custom software faster and more efficiently.

Software documentation forms the basis for all communication relating to a software project. To be truly effective and usable, it should be based on what needs to be known. Agile Documentation provides sound advice on how to produce lean and lightweight software documentation. It will be welcomed by all project team members who want to cut out the fat from this time consuming task. Guidance given in pattern form, easily digested and cross-referenced, provides solutions to common problems. Straightforward advice will help you to judge: What details should be left in and what left out When communication face-to-face would be better than paper or online How to adapt the documentation process to the requirements of individual projects and build in change How to organise documents and make them easily accessible When to use diagrams rather than text How to choose the right tools and techniques How documentation impacts the customer Better than offering pat answers or prescriptions, this book will help you to understand the elements and processes that can be found repeatedly in good project documentation and which can be shaped and designed to address your individual circumstance. The author uses real-world examples and utilises agile principles to provide an accessible, practical pattern-based guide which shows how to produce necessary and high quality documentation.