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McConnell, Steve :

Rapid development : taming wild software schedules - Bangalore : WP Publishers & Distributors (P) Limited., 1996. - xix, 647 p. : illustrations ;

Included Index.

pt. 1. Efficient development. Welcome to rapid development --
Rapid-development strategy --
Classic mistakes --
Software-development fundamentals --
Risk management --
pt. 2. Rapid development. Core issues in rapid development --
Lifecycle planning --
Estimation --
Scheduling --
Customer-oriented development --
Motivation --
Teamwork --
Team structure --
Feature-set control --
Productivity tools --
Project recovery --
pt. 3. Best practices. Introduction to best practices --
Change board --
Daily build and smoke test --
Designing for change --
Evolutionary delivery --
Evolutionary prototyping --
Goal setting --Inspections --
Joint application development (JAD) --
Lifecycle model selection --
Measurement --
Miniature milestones --
Outsourcing --
Principled negotiation --
Productivity environments --
Rapid-development languages (RDLs) --
Requirements scrubbing --
Reuse --
Signing up --
Spiral lifecycle model --
Staged delivery --
Theory-W management --
Throwaway prototyping --
Timebox development --
Tools group --
Top-10 risks list --
User-interface prototyping --
Voluntary overtime.

This also demonstrates that schedules are effectively meaningless in isolation. A must read for all project managers and , in fact, everybody in the project teams.

ISBN: 1556159005 9781556159008 9788178530130 8178530139

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Computer software -- Development.
Logiciels.

Dewey Class. No.: 005.3 / MAC