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Using the proposed SEMAT Object Management Group standard, development organizations can "re-found" software engineering based on solid theory, proven principles, and best practices that have earned wide support. Using SEMAT, they can address both technology and human issues, while achieving easy extensibility to support diverse uses, changing requirements, and new technologies. In The Essence of Software Engineering, a team of key SEMAT pioneers introduce this new standard, explaining how it defines a common ground for more agile and effective software development. Led by Ivar Jacobson, one of this generation's most influential software innovators, they fully introduce both elements of SEMAT: the kernel, encompassing Requirements, Software System, Team, Work, other key elements of software projects, and their states, and can be used by practitioners to make better choices about how they develop software systems; ahe language,defining syntax and semantics for organizing and composing practices and methods. For all software engineering practitioners, including architects, designers, developers, testers, requirements engineers, process engineers, and project managers.

Dr. Ivar Jacobson, one of the prime movers behind SEMAT, is the principal author of six books, including, with Pan-Wei Ng, Aspect-Oriented Software Development with Use Cases (Addison-Wesley, 2005). Dr. Pan-Wei Ng has multiple roles within Ivar Jacobson International, including the definition of best practices in architecture, use cases, and iterative development. Paul E. McMahon, principal of PEM Systems, is the author of Integrating CMMI and Agile Development (Addison-Wesley, 2011). Ian Spence, CTO and Chief Scientist at Ivar Jacobson International, is the coauthor of Managing Iterative Software Development Projects (Addison-Wesley, 2007). Svante Lidman has more than twenty years of experience in software development, primarily working with software development processes and related tooling.

Foreword by Robert Martin

Foreword by Bertrand Meyer

Foreword by Richard Soley

Preface

Part I: The Kernel Idea Explained

Chapter 1: A Glimpse of How the Kernel Can Be Used

Chapter 2: A Little More Detail about the Kernel

Chapter 3: A 10,000-Foot View of the Full Kernel

Chapter 4: The Kernel Alphas Made Tangible with Cards

Chapter 5: Providing More Details to the Kernel through Practices

Chapter 6: What the Kernel Can Do for You



Part II: Using the Kernel to Run an Iteration



Chapter 7: Running Iterations with the Kernel: Plan-Do-Check-Adapt

Chapter 8: Planning an Iteration

Chapter 9: Doing and Checking the Iteration

Chapter 10: Adapting the Way of Working

Chapter 11: Running an Iteration with Explicit Requirement Item States



Part III: Using the Kernel to Run a Software Endeavor



Chapter 12: Running a Software Endeavor: From Idea to Production

Chapter 13: Building the Business Case

Chapter 14: Developing the System

Chapter 15: Operating the Software



Part IV: Scaling Development with the Kernel



Chapter 16: What Does It Mean to Scale?

Chapter 17: Zooming In to Provide Details

Chapter 18: Reaching Out to Different Kinds of Development

Chapter 19: Scaling Up to Large and Complex Development



Part V: How the Kernel Changes the Way You Work with Methods



Chapter 20: Thinking about Methods without Thinking about Methods

Chapter 21: Agile Working with Methods



Part VI: What’s Really New Here?



Chapter 22: Refounding Methods

Chapter 23: Separation of Concerns Applied to Methods

Chapter 24: The Key Differentiators



Part VII: Epilogue



Chapter 25: This Is Not the End

Chapter 26: … But Perhaps It Is the End of the Beginning

Chapter 27: When the Vision Comes True

Appendix A: Concepts and Notation

Appendix B: What Does This Book Cover with Respect to the Kernel?

Appendix C: Bibliography

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