The Coad Series

Peter Coad, Series Editor

• David J. Anderson
  Agile Management for Software Engineering: Applying the Theory of Constraints for Business Results

• David Astels
  Test Driven Development: A Practical Guide

• David Astels, Granville Miller, Miroslav Novak
  A Practical Guide to eXtreme Programming

• Andy Carmichael, Dan Haywood
  Better Software Faster

• Donald Kranz, Ronald J. Norman
  A Practical Guide to Agile Unified Process

• James McGovern, Scott W. Ambler, Michael E. Stevens, James Linn, Vikas Sharan, Elias Jo
  A Practical Guide to Enterprise Architecture

• Jill Nicola, Mark Mayfield, Michael Abney
  Streamlined Object Modeling: Patterns, Rules, and Implementation

• Stephen R. Palmer, John M. Felsing
  A Practical Guide to Feature-Driven Development

About the Series

The Coad Series is a growing collection of practical guides “from the trenches.” The series focuses on key “must be addressed” IT pain points, felt by leaders around the globe. The series is especially suited for CIOs, IT department managers, technology leaders, and change agents. The Coad Series addresses the four dimensions of successful IT: technology, process, people, and vision. For the series, Peter Coad personally selects authors and topics and then mentors the authors at a strategic level along the way.

About the Series Editor

Peter Coad (pronounced “code”) is senior vice president and chief strategist of Borland (http://www.borland.com) Software Corporation. Coad collaborates with fellow Borland execs in formulating long-term business and product strategies. Peter also represents Borland worldwide as a thought leader, industry luminary, and evangelist among CXOs, technical department managers, and developers.

Peter is globally recognized as an accomplished business strategist, model builder, and thought leader. As business strategist, Peter formulates long-term competitive strategies for Borland. Previously, as Chairman, CEO, and President of TogetherSoft, he led in growing that company 11.6 times revenue in the span of two years, overall profitably. As model builder, Peter has built hundreds of models for nearly every business imaginable, fully focused on building-in strategic business advantage. As thought leader, Peter writes books (six to date) on building better software faster; he speaks at industry events worldwide; and he is the Editor-in-Chief of The Coad Series, published by Prentice Hall; in addition, Peter was an invited speaker on business strategy at the 2003 “Future in Review” conference.

Coad attended the Stanford Executive Program for Growing Companies and received a Master of Science in Computer Science (USC) and a Bachelor of Science with Honors in Electrical Engineering (OSU).