Well, my sister is going to organize a very very big scada project. She is physics and she don't know anything about programming, don't know anything about soa, n-tier or even how to program in java or .net. She will be the client role for another company :)
Do you know any good book for that kind of people One that says: "don't change requisites everyday" :) and things like that.
Just for sending it to her as a gift.
Thanks
a good book for people in the other (dark?) side
GaltSalt
as a suggestion for you ... http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0321268202/qid=1142464795/sr=2-1/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_1/102-3319163-1611303 v=glance&s=books
Cheers,
Greg
ort11
Here are the books I recommended to my team
.NET 2.0, Patterns, Architecture, OOAD, Books and Links
Edwin Jongsma
Thanks, these were what i was looking for.
I think i will gift her the "waltzing...". It is better for her knowing about risks (she doesn't know in what world she is entering
). Hope it will be good for her when she talks with the guys of accenture, dmr ... or whatever "consulting" company that they will hire.
And later, when i finish my "pro scalable .net 2.0 app design" (very nice book) i will read it, !boomerang gift!. It will be better for me than the scalable one, my company loves to put all the bll into pl/sql, thin com+ that makes a transaction in the logical layer (but we don't need that because we don't make transactions there) and asp pages, and hates objects (vb6, vbs, pl/sql, asp...)... all of this in 2006s, bit frustrating.
Are we an engineering
p.s: eyyyyy, i am writing from Spain, !we have international shipping!
derek73
Well a big thing is going to be the style the company uses .. esp project management. In say a DDD based environment there is almost nothing she needs to know as they will be sharing an ubiquitous language that she already knows using her as an expert.
Beyond that I would HIGHLY recommend "Waltzing with bears, managing risk on software projects" if she is taking any sort of managerial role. Good read as well.
Joel on software may be quite enlightenning for her as well ... he does a great job explaining alot of concepts without going too deeply into any of them, again its also a fun read thats not technobabble. Joel will definately help her with perspective.
Cheers,
Greg
p.s. you can probably get both on amazon used and new for < $35