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Rapid development : taming wild software schedules

By: McConnell, SteveMaterial type: Text

TextPublication details: Bangalore : WP Publishers & Distributors (P) Limited., 1996Description: xix, 647 p. : illustrationsISBN: 1556159005 ; 9781556159008; 9788178530130 ; 8178530139Subject(s): Computer software -- Development | LogicielsDDC classification: 005.3

Contents:

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.

Summary: 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.

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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.

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