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November-December 2008 cover Opportunistic Software Systems Development

This special issue offers insights into the viability, or perhaps the inevitability, of OSSD and brings forward the most effective practices known today. It also points the way to what needs to be done to make OSSD more accessible to all practitioners.

Celebrating 25 Years of IEEE Software's Publication

Take a walk back in time to consider notable milestones and accomplishments, from different perspectives, in the software industry and in the history of software development.

>>>This Issue's Highlights

From the Editor
25 Years of Software
 (PDF)
This overview summarizes how experts in requirements, design, architecture, software technology and tools, interface design, and more view their areas’ notable milestones and accomplishments.| Hakan Erdogmus

Guest Editors' Introduction
Opportunistic Software Systems Development: Making Systems from What's Available 
(PDF)
OSSD is a reality today and for the foreseeable future. Despite all its difficulties, we persist in trying to compose systems from readily available components, including other whole systems. What's the state of the art? What are the trends we need to know about? | Cornelius Ncube, Patricia Oberndorf, and Anatol W. Kark

New Department: Career Development
Licensing Software Engineers? (PDF)
To further your professional development, should you aim to become a licensed professional software engineer? When and where is licensing important? | Philippe Kruchten

Has IEEE Software helped you advance your career, overcome challenges, keep up with trends, teach a course, adopt a new technique, affect the way your organization operates? Has it caused you to see software development or the profession in a new light?  Send up to 500 words to software@computer.org with subject "25th anniversary" before the end of 2008.

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>> Full, Current Table of Contents    

>> IEEE Software's 2008 Annual Index (HTM)     2007 Annual Index (PDF)               


>> IBM developerWorks interviews editor in chief Hakan Erdogmus about IEEE Software's mandate, how the magazine differs from other software publications, and why it's valuable for today's software engineer. More on this ...  | Listen (21:45) (Click to listen or right-click Save as to download)

>> IEEE Software's Design columnist Rebecca Wirfs-Brock appeared in an InfoQ podcast, in which she presents practical lessons she has learned from doing architectural reviews.



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Tools of the Trade Blog Columnist Diomidis Spinellis talks about today's software tools and the problems they do and don't solve.
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