Rapid development : taming wild software schedules

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Title:

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.

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Summary

Corporate and commercial software-development teams all want solutions for one important problem--how to get their high-pressure development schedules under control. In RAPID DEVELOPMENT, author Steve McConnell addresses that concern head-on with overall strategies, specific best practices, and valuable tips that help shrink and control development schedules and keep projects moving. Inside, you'll find:

A rapid-development strategy that can be applied to any project and the best practices to make that strategy work Candid discussions of great and not-so-great rapid-development practices--estimation, prototyping, forced overtime, motivation, teamwork, rapid-development languages, risk management, and many others A list of classic mistakes to avoid for rapid-development projects, including creeping requirements, shortchanged quality, and silver-bullet syndrome Case studies that vividly illustrate what can go wrong, what can go right, and how to tell which direction your project is going RAPID DEVELOPMENT is the real-world guide to more efficient applications development.