A review by iamleeg
The Essentials of Modern Software Engineering: Free the Practices from the Method Prisons! by Harold Bud Lawson, Pan-Wei Ng, Ivar Jacobson

informative

4.5

I really appreciate the systems approach taken by the authors in the SEMAT methodology. Rather than defining a software development process to follow, they define the key attributes of a software development system (they call them “alphas”) and then map processes and practices onto those alphas, exploring how the practices affect development and connecting those relationships with desired interventions.

That said, when you compare the seven alphas with the fourteen SWEBOK knowledge areas, you ask: why these in particular? Why are they more important than the others? This book gives no justification.