Rapid development : taming wild software schedules /
McConnell, Steve.
Redmond, Wash. : Microsoft Press,
c1996.
Includes bibliographical references and 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.
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