System Development Instant Reference

This book is written for IT professional as a direct and immediate reference with just enough details to get started. It is not a textbook on system development, but a practical guide focusing on everyday problems often encountered in different processes in actual business operations, and lists out creative solutions to tackle them based on 25 years of experience:

How to complete the project on time, within budget and meet user expectation?
How to start with information first, then move to interface and interaction?
What technology options are available to consider and how to choose from them?
How to defend your system and protect important data?
How to migrate and convert data from existing system?
How to acquire the appropriate resources and get all the approval?
How to identify and resolve the potential issues before rollout?
How to release a system safely?

Different types of readers could benefit from this book. Students or fresh graduates could obtain firsthand working knowledge before starting their career. Existing practitioners can better understand the fields or areas that they are not familiar with. Managers can update their knowledge on the latest technological trends.

Much of the fruitful information provided is still undocumented and not covered by AI yet. In short, it summarizes how to speed up project development time, not to miss important requirement from different users, how to minimize discrepancy between final product and customer expectations, what are the most important consideration in choosing appropriate technologies, the essential debugging and performance tuning techniques, how to avoid unknown technology from affecting the project, how to work better with different parties, how to handle challenges of different kinds and most importantly, how to avoid project delay.

It also covers standards, practices and procedures adopted by public and private organization as well as the issues that arise, including full set of documentation required, procurement process, migration of existing data, security control, privacy protection, user acceptance test management and production rollout procedures.

You can buy the print version or Kindle e-book, or if you subscribe to Amazon Kindle Unlimited, you can read it for free on the service. The service is also available as a free one-month trial. Depending on your needs, you can also purchase individual chapters in e-book format. Click the e-book, paperback, hardcopy or series link for details.

You can download a condensed 85-page sample here for preview.