Synopses & Reviews
This succinct, example-driven book empowers software developers who are using design patterns, arguably today's most popular object-oriented programming concept.
Design Patterns' co-author John Vlissides blends his intimate knowledge of the pattern development process with practical techniques for better pattern application. The result is a thought-provoking guide that will help you improve your next software design by putting patterns to work successfully.
Pattern Hatching demystifies the fine points of patterns, placing them in the broader context of basic object-oriented design principles. It dispels many of the misconceptions about patterns that have spread in the software development community--clearly articulating what patterns are and how they ease the development process. The book also presents themes and variations on several established patterns, yielding many new insights. With the instruction in this book, you will become better able to tailor patterns to the design problem at hand.
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Review
Quotes about the Value-Based Knowledge Management package:
"Value-Based Knowledge Management is a very impressive volume that attempts (successfully) to summarize the state of our knowledge about knowledge management."
Chun Wei, Professor, University of Toronto and author of:
The Knowing Organization: How Organizations Use Information to Construct Meaning, Create Knowledge, and Make Decisions
"The three authors warn us about the current need for knowledge within organizations (the creation and distribution of it) will not automatically lead to success. This will only take place when knowledge becomes secondary to the value-creating abilities of the company."
Jan Paul Groll, Chief Editor
Holland Management Review, May 1998
Synopsis
This succinct, example-driven book empowers software developers who are using design patterns, arguably today's most popular object-oriented programming concept. Design Patterns' co-author John Vlissides blends his intimate knowledge of the pattern development process with practical techniques for better pattern application. The result is a thought-provoking guide that will help you improve your next software design by putting patterns to work successfully.
Pattern Hatching demystifies the fine points of patterns, placing them in the broader context of basic object-oriented design principles. It dispels many of the misconceptions about patterns that have spread in the software development community-clearly articulating what patterns are and how they ease the development process. The book also presents themes and variations on several established patterns, yielding many new insights. With the instruction in this book, you will become better able to tailor patterns to the design problem at hand.
Synopsis
Design patterns, which express relationships between recurring problems and proven solutions, have become immensely popular in the world of software development. More and more software developers are recognizing the supreme usefulness of design patterns and how they ease the design and delivery of software applications. This book builds upon the information presented in the seminal work in this field, Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software, and gives software professionals the information they need to recognize and write their own patterns. Pattern Hatching, written by one of the co-authors of Design Patterns, truly helps the software professional apply one of the most popular concepts in software development.
Description
Includes bibliographical references (p. 153-156) and index.
Up until now, most books on Knowledge Management have focused on ways to gather and manage the ever-growing information stream flooding businesses today. Value-Based Knowledge Management goes further by identifying the changes companies will need to make in order to thrive in the Knowledge Economy. Knowledge simply won't be enough, companies must gather and manage meaningful knowledge to create value for themselves, their customers and society. The victors in the "virtual" market "space" will have one thing in common: value-adding knowledge.
The "triple value package" includes a visual book and two CD-ROMs. The book is filled with colorful graphics that come to life through straight talk between the authors. Additional sidebars give insight into Best Practices from benchmark companies that skillfully handle the challenges of the Knowledge Economy.
The first CD-ROM, Value-Based Knowledge Management, is a stimulating animated tutorial or executive summary of the book. The second, The Value Enhancer is an assessment tool to let you be the judge of whether a company's knowledge practices facilitate or hamper its value-adding business performance. Value-Based Knowledge Management even glances into our economic future by discussing the advantages for gathering, processing, and implementing, knowledge that the new quantum company may bring.
The Value-Based Knowledge Management approach is a practical application and offers a unique synthesis between Operational Knowledge Management (the focus of most KM books) and Strategic Knowledge Management which ensures that a company's knowledge reflects its strategy and objectives.
Value-Based Knowledge Management is authored by members of the Amsterdam, Netherlands, Knowledge Management Unit of KPMG, the globally prominent accounting and consulting firm. Professor Dr. Ren Tissen, Daniel Andriessen and Frank Lekanne Deprez have collaborated to produce a book that can guide you through today's chaotic world in which economies supersede each other in rapid succession, where the Quantum Economy is poised to present new challenges, new opportunities.
About the Author
John Vlissides is a member of the research staff at the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center in Hawthorne, New York. He has practiced object-oriented technology for more than a decade as a designer, implementer, researcher, lecturer, and consultant. In addition to co-authoring Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software, he is co-editor of the book Pattern Languages of Program Design 2 (both from Addison-Wesley). He and the other co-authors of Design Patterns are recipients of the 1998 Dr. Dobb's Journal Excellence in Programming Award.
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