Outside in Software Development or MicroC OS II

Outside-in Software Development: A Practical Approach to Building Successful Stakeholder-Based Products

Author: Carl Kessler

Build Software That Delivers Maximum Business Value to Every Key Stakeholder

Imagine your ideal development project. It will deliver exactly what your clients need. It will achieve broad, rapid, enthusiastic adoption. And it will be designed and built by a productive, high-morale team of expert software professionals. Using this book's breakthrough "outside-in" approach to software development, your next project can be that ideal project.

In Outside-in Software Development, two of IBM's most respected software leaders, Carl Kessler and John Sweitzer, show you how to identify the stakeholders who'll determine your project's real value, shape every decision around their real needs, and deliver software that achieves broad, rapid, enthusiastic adoption.

The authors present an end-to-end framework and practical implementation techniques any development team can quickly benefit from, regardless of project type or scope. Using their proven approach, you can improve the effectiveness of every client conversation, define priorities with greater visibility and clarity, and make sure all your code delivers maximum business value.

Coverage includes

• Understanding your stakeholders, and the organizational and business context they operate in

• Clarifying the short- and long-term stakeholder goals your project will satisfy

• Mapping project expectations to outcomes more effectively

• Building more "consumable" software: systems that are easier to deploy, use, and support

• Continuously enhancing alignment with stakeholder goals

• Helpingstakeholders manage ongoing change long after you've delivered your product

• Mastering the leadership techniques needed to drive outside-in development

Interesting textbook: George Soros on Globalization or Reflections on the Revolution in France

MicroC/OS-II: The Real-Time Kernel

Author: Jean J Labross

MicroC/OS II Second Edition describes the design and implementation of the MicroC/OS-II real-time operating system (RTOS). In addition to its value as a reference to the kernel, it is an extremely detailed and highly readable design study particularly useful to the embedded systems student. While documenting the design and implementation of the kernel, the book also walks the reader through the many related development issues: how to adapt the kernel for a new microprocessor, how to install the kernel, and how to structure the applications that run on the kernel. This edition features documentation for several important new features of the software, including new real-time services, floating points, and coding conventions. The accompanying CDROM includes complete code for the MicroC/OS-II kernel.

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