[comp.software-eng] BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT by Oxford Univsersity Press

jacoby@cs.titech.ac.jp (Raymond JACOBY) (01/26/91)

NEW from OXFORD University Press: [ announcement seen at the 3rd International 
Workshop on Software Quality Improvement, Tokyo. ]

Raymond JACOBY 
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jacoby@cs.titech.ac.jp
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	J A P A N ' S   S O F T W A R E   F A C T O R I E S
		   A Challenge to U.S. Management

	      			by
			Michael A. Cusumano,
			       M I T

It is well known that Japan has successfully competed with U.S. computer makers
in manufacturing and marketing hardware, but minimal attention has been given 
to Japanese firms' rapid redress of their initial lag in developing competitive
software. Cucumano's book is the first to analyze how Hitachi, Toshiba, NEC, and
Fujitsu, inspired by AT&T, SDC, and IBM, have created effective software 
processes and organizations for software that demonstrate remarkable levels of
programmer productivity and software reuse.

Japanese's management of software development has processed from a loosely
organized "craft" or "job-shop" approach to a more productive and fruitful
"factory" approach. Cusumano outlines and explains the strategies of Japanese 
reusability; standardizing tools; controlling costs, scheduling, quality, and
introducing computer-aided software engineering tools; and utilizing 
subcontractors along with centralizing development facilities.

Cucumano's book will be important reading for all people involved in software
and computer technology, as well as those interested in Japanese business and
corporate culture.

				CONTENTS
PART1:  THE SOFTWARE CHALLENGE

	Product-Process Strategy and Japanese's Software Industry
	The Technology: Recruitment Problems and Integrated Solutions

PART 2: THE FACTORY APPROACH

	System Development Corporation: A US Factory Experiment
	Hitachi: Organizing for Process and US Quality Control
	Toshiba: Linking Productivity and Reusability
	Fujitsu: Process Control to Automated Customization
	Standardization and Cooperative R&D

CONCLUSION: SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT: From Craft to Factory Practice

February 1991    528 pp.: 72 line cuts
506216-7   $ 35.00

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