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Item specifics
- Condition
- Release Year
- 1996
- Book Title
- Rapid Development: Taming Wild Software Schedules
- ISBN
- 9781556159008
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Pearson Education
ISBN-10
1556159005
ISBN-13
9781556159008
eBay Product ID (ePID)
427312
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
672 Pages
Publication Name
Rapid Development
Language
English
Subject
Software Development & Engineering / General, Desktop Applications / Databases, Software Development & Engineering / Project Management
Publication Year
1996
Features
Revised
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Computers
Series
Developer Best Practices Ser.
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
1.4 in
Item Weight
36.8 Oz
Item Length
8.9 in
Item Width
7.3 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
96-021517
Illustrated
Yes
Table Of Content
Preface Part I: EFFICIENT DEVELOPMENT Chapter 1: Welcome to Rapid Development Chapter 2: Rapid-Development Strategy Chapter 3: Classic Mistakes Chapter 4: Software-Development Fundamentals Chapter 5: Risk Management Part II: RAPID DEVELOPMENT Chapter 6: Core Issues in Rapid Development Chapter 7: Lifecycle Planning Chapter 8: Estimation Chapter 9: Scheduling Chapter 10: Customer-Oriented Development Chapter 11: Motivation Chapter 12: Teamwork Chapter 13: Team Structure Chapter 14: Feature-Set Control Chapter 15: Productivity Tools Chapter 16: Project Recovery Part III: BEST PRACTICES Introduction to Best Practices Chapter 17: Change Board Chapter 18: Daily Build and Smoke Test Chapter 19: Designing for Change Chapter 20: Evolutionary Delivery Chapter 21: Evolutionary Prototyping Chapter 22: Goal Setting Chapter 23: Inspections Chapter 24: Joint Application Development (JAD) Chapter 25: Lifecycle Model Selection Chapter 26: Measurement Chapter 27: Miniature Milestones Chapter 28: Outsourcing Chapter 29: Principled Negotiation Chapter 30: Productivity Environments Chapter 31: Rapid-Development Languages (RDLs) Chapter 32: Requirements Scrubbing Chapter 33: Reuse Chapter 34: Signing Up Chapter 35: Spiral Lifecycle Model Chapter 36: Staged Delivery Chapter 37: Theory-W Management Chapter 38: Throwaway Prototyping Chapter 39: Timebox Development Chapter 40: Tools Group Chapter 41: Top-10 Risks List Chapter 42: User-Interface Prototyping Chapter 43: Voluntary Overtime Bibliography
Edition Description
Revised edition
Synopsis
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.
LC Classification Number
QA76.76.D47M393 1996
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