DSDM: Business Focused Development, Second Edition

The Dynamic Systems Development Method is a process that is used to deliver new software systems.

• Practitioner's guide addressing issues such as how to get people from different disciplines to work together as a team, how to gain commitment and how to manage projects within normal business constraints.
• New edition covers how to use DSDM with other methodologies such as Extreme Programming and UML.
• Updated case studies showing how DSDM is used in companies such as BT and British Airways.
• Based on best practices and lessons learned by DSDM Consortium members and is vendor independent.
• Members of the DSDM Consortium include Hewlett Packard, BT, British Airways, Ministry of Defence, PWC, Vodafone and KPMG.

User Level:

Professional

Audience:

Software developers.

Author Biography:

The DSDM Consortium aimes to produce and evolve the de facto approach to building systems both quickly and efficiently. In the UK, DSDM is the most commonly used method for RAD since it has repeatedly demonstrated success in organizations of all sizes. It is now gaining acceptace on a worlwide basis

The DSDM Consortium is a not for profit membership organisation dedicated to evolving the DSDM framework. Its members share knowledge and experience and help to write all DSDM publications.

Jennifer Stapleton, the editor of the book, has been Technical Director of the DSDM Consortium since its inception, and is also Director of Consulting at Empower Dynamics Limited. She is a Fellow of the British Computer Society and was its Technical Vice-President from 1996-2002. She became an independent consultant in 1996, and focuses on helping organisations to improve their processes in project delivery -- always with an eye to delivering real satisfaction for the end-user.

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