Analysis & Design

Ambler, Scott. Building Object Applications That Work : Your Step-By-Step Handbook for Developing Robust  Systems With Object Technology. SIGS Publications, 1997.

Bennett, Douglas. Designing Hard Software: The Essential Tasks. Manning Publications, 1996.

• The only one general agreement about software architecture in the industry, if you don't have one, you are in a mess. I had lunch with Douglas Bennett recently and discussed his new book. His ideas on architecture could be useful to you.

Booch, Grady. Object-Oriented Analysis and Design With Applications (The Benjamin/Cummings Series in Object-Oriented Software Engineering). Benjamin Cummings, 1994 (best for C++ design).

Fowler, Martin. Analysis Patterns : Reusable Object Models (Addison-Wesley Object Technology Series). Addison-Wesley, 1996. (Very good book on patterns) More information at Amazon, or FatBrain.

Fowler, Martin. UML Distilled; Applying the Standard Object Modeling Language. Addison-Wesley Pub Co.,  June 1, 1997. (It's short! And it's the best preview of the OMG analysis and design standard.)

• Martin Fowler's page on OOAD and updates to his book.

• Handy companion to Martin Fowler's book above for use with Rational Rose.

Interesting Reading