Rapid development : taming wild software schedules
by
 
McConnell, Steve.

Title
Rapid development : taming wild software schedules

Author
McConnell, Steve.

ISBN
9781556159008

Personal Author
McConnell, Steve.

Publication Information
Redmond, Wash. : Microsoft Press, c1996.

Physical Description
xix, 647 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

General Note
Includes index.

Contents
1. Welcome to Rapid Development -- 2. Rapid-Development Strategy -- 3. Classic Mistakes -- 4. Software-Development Fundamentals -- 5. Risk Management -- 6. Core Issues in Rapid Development -- 7. Lifecycle Planning -- 8. Estimation -- 9. Scheduling -- 10. Customer-Oriented Development -- 11. Motivation -- 12. Teamwork -- 13. Team Structure -- 14. Feature-Set Control -- 15. Productivity Tools -- 16. Project Recovery -- 17. Change Board -- 18. Daily Build and Smoke Test -- 19. Designing for Change -- 20. Evolutionary Delivery -- 21. Evolutionary Prototyping -- 22. Goal Setting -- 23. Inspections -- 24. Joint Application Development (JAD) -- 25. Lifecycle Model Selection -- 26. Measurement -- 27. Miniature Milestones -- 28. Outsourcing -- 29. Principled Negotiation -- 30. Productivity Environments -- 31. Rapid-Development Languages (RDLs) -- 32. Requirements Scrubbing -- 33. Reuse -- 34. Signing Up -- 35. Spiral Lifecycle Model -- 36. Staged Delivery -- 37. Theory-W Management.
 
38. Throwaway Prototyping -- 39. Timebox Development -- 40. Tools Group -- 41. Top-10 Risks List -- 42. User-Interface Prototyping -- 43. Voluntary Overtime.

Subject Term
Computer software -- Development.