Managing the Software Enterprise: Software Engineering and Information Systems in Context

This title goes beyond traditional Software Engineering textbooks to focus on the bigger picture of the relationship between software and organisations. IT looks at how to manage the relationship with enterprise strategically using enduring pricnciples, how to manage and develop personell working on and with software, how to procure software and marhal its resources, and how to sustain software in teh face of a changing world and requirements. This book provides students with a solid preparation for the challenges they will face in the software engineering industry today.

Professor Pat Hall has held chairs at Brunel and the Open University and teaches software engineering as well as conducting research into software testing, components and architecture, as well as in the social aspects of computing and software localisation and internationalisation. He has extensive experience working in industry on database component development, quality assurance and engineering standards.

Juan Fernandez-Ramil has been a lecturer at the Department of Computing at the Open University and previously was a researcher at Imperial College. For seven years he worked as a project engineer in the oil industry in Venezuela.