Better Software Faster

Product Description TogetherSoft's integrated lifecycle tools allow software teams to achieve breakthrough quality, efficiency, and performance. In Better Software Faster, two leading Together experts share insights, examples, and techniques for succeeding with Together every step of the way: through planning, requirements, modeling, design, architecture, development, debugging, implementation, and beyond. Contains solutions for every team member: analysts, architects, designers, developers, and managers. From the Back Cover Together: supercharging software development, from start to finish!Together delivers a superbly integrated set of lifecycle tools for building software with breakthrough quality, efficiency, and performance. Now there's a definitive guide to making the most of Together: Better Software Faster. In this book, two leading Together mentors share the techniques you need to succeed every step of the way—from planning and requirements through development, debugging, delivery, and administration. You'll find detailed examples and practical insights for: Leveraging Together's common language, diagrams, and building block components to improve team collaboration Mastering TogetherSoft's "Model-Build-Deploy" approach to software development Managing the software development process from the Together ControlCenterUsing Together to simplify modeling, design, and architectureTaking advantage of Together's tools for enhancing programmer efficiency and reducing errorsWhether you're an analyst, architect, designer, developer, or manager ... no matter what enterprise technologies you're already using ... this book will help you streamline and supercharge your very next software project ... Together!The Coad Series: Improving the ways people work togetherEvery book in the Coad Series (Peter Coad, series editor) delivers practical guidance for building better businesses, and the systems that support them—faster, better, and more easily. Legendary software methodology expert and TogetherSoft founder Peter Coad personally selects authors and books for this series, and works on a strategic level with every author throughout the book development process. About the Author ANDY CARMICHAEL has worked in software engineering for 20 years, specializing in software development methods and tools. He co-authored Better Software Faster while TogetherSoft's Director of Professional Services, Europe and the UK's Technical Services Director. He has edited two other books, Object Development Methods and Developing Business Objects, and is technical editor for Application Development Advisor magazine. DAN HAYWOOD has worked on large and small software development projects for more than 12 years as an independent consultant and as a consultant for Sybase Professional Services and Accenture. Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. PrefaceWhy we wrote this bookThere is a vast difference between a product that forces you to change the way you work and one that inspires you to work differently. Being forced to do it "their" way is uncomfortable and usually unproductive. The freedom to discover better ways of working is more enjoyable and inspires new insights into other approaches to get your work done.The reason we wrote this book is a product called Together ControlCenter and the different way of working that it enables. We didn't just write it for users of Together—users of competing development platforms or no development platform will, we hope, also find it helpful, but we admit, Together is the inspiration behind the book.You won't often come across products that fit into the "inspirational" category, but it seems for many users that's exactly where Together fits. It is certainly revolutionary compared to the typical modeling and code-generation tools that preceded it. For us, Together ControlCenter has caused us to look again at how teams work together. So, one of the objectives of this bo