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Object Thinking (DV-Microsoft Professional)

ISBN: 0735619654
EAN: 2147483647

Year: 2004
Pages: 88

Authors: David West

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• Table of Contents
• BackCover
• Microsoft ObjectThinking
• Preface
• Paths and Destinations
• Who Should Read This Book
• How This Book Is Organized
• Introduction
• Curiosities
• The People Issue
• Object Thinking
• XP and Object Thinking
• Chapter 1: ObjectThinking
• Observing the Object Difference
• Object Thinking Think Like an Object
• Problem Solution
• Object Thinking and Agile Development Practices
• Thinking Is Key
• Onward
• Chapter 2: Philosophical Context
• Philosophy Made Manifest - Dueling Languages
• Formalism and Hermeneutics
• Postmodern Critiques
• Chapter 3: From Philosophy toCulture
• Four Presuppositions
• Object Principles - Software Principles
• Cooperating Cultures
• Chapter 4: Metaphor: Bridge to the Unfamiliar
• The Lego Brick Metaphor
• The Object-as-Person Metaphor
• Software as Theater
• Ants, Not Autocrats
• Two Human-Derived Metaphors
• Thinking Like an Object
• Chapter 5: Vocabulary: Words toThink With
• Essential Terms
• Extension Terms
• Implementation Terms
• Auxiliary Concepts
• Chapter 6: Method, Process, andModels
• Two Decades of Object Methodology
• Purpose and Use of Method
• A Syncretic Approach
• Models
• Chapter 7: Discovery
• Domain Understanding
• Object Definition
• Chapter 8: Thinking TowardDesign
• Object Internals
• Object Appearance
• Object State, Object Constraints
• Chapter 9: All the World s aStage
• Static Relationships
• Dynamic Relationships
• Constraints
• Development at the Speed of Thought
• Chapter 10: Wrapping Up
• Vexations
• Extensions
• Provocation - The Future of Objects
• Bibliography
• Index
• Index_B
• Index_C
• Index_D
• Index_E
• Index_F
• Index_G
• Index_H
• Index_I
• Index_J-K
• Index_L
• Index_M
• Index_N
• Index_O
• Index_P
• Index_Q-R
• Index_S
• Index_T
• Index_U
• Index_V
• Index_W
• Index_X-Y
• List of Figures
• List of Tables
• List of Listings
• List of Sidebars