Explains how the cooperative game is played in business and on engineering projects. This work illuminates the agile model, shows how it has evolved, and answers the questions developers and project managers ask most often, including: where does agile development fit in our organization? How do we blend agile ideas with other ideas?

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Presents a catalog of simple solutions to commonly occurring design problems. These 23 patterns allow designers to create more reusable designs without having to rediscover the design solutions themselves. The authors begin by describing what patterns are, and how they can help you design object-oriented software.

Demonstrates how software practitioners can realize the benefits of refactoring. This book shows you where opportunities for refactoring typically can be found, and how to go about reworking a bad design into a good one. It provides a catalog of more than seventy proven refactorings with helpful pointers that teach you when to apply them.

Focuses on the end result of object-oriented analysis and design. This book provides a catalogue of patterns that have emerged in a range of domains including trading, measurement, accounting and organizational relationships. It also presents a series of support patterns that discuss how to turn conceptual models into software.

Provides a catalog of sixty-five patterns, with real-world solutions that demonstrate the formidable of messaging and help design effective messaging solutions for an enterprise. This book includes examples covering a variety of different integration technologies, and explores the advantages and limitations of asynchronous messaging architectures.