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The Software Development Edge: Essays on Managing Successful Projects
The Software Development Edge: Essays on Managing Successful Projects
Table of Contents
Copyright
Praise for The Software Development Edge
About the Author
Foreword
Preface
Part1.GENERAL MANAGEMENT
Chapter1.Beginning at the Beginning
The Importance of Good Software
Hard Rocks in the Swamp
Audience
The Iterative Problem-Solving Clock
Recap
Chapter2.Computational Roots
The Precipitator
The Answer
How This Program Worked
Why Was This Generation of Engineers Special?
Computation
Getting to Know the Numbers by Their First Names
So How About Those Computers?
Our Computational Heritage
Recap
Chapter3.Mountaineering
On Climbing Big Mountains
Common Causes of Failure
Ingredients for Success
The Human Factor
Recap
Chapter4.Managing
Managing Teams
Recap
Part2.SOFTWARE DIFFERENCES
Chapter5.The Most Important Thing
Iterative Development
Roscoe Leroy
Going Over the Waterfall
The Other Extreme
Roscoe s First Picture
Roscoe s Second Picture
Wait a Minute
Keeping the Vectors Short
The Application to Software Development
Applied Learning and Short-Vector Direction
Risk Targeting
Have You Heard This One Before?
More on Applied Learning
Business Implications
The Staffing Effect
Just Plain Horse (shoe) Sense
Recap
Chapter6.Modeling
How to Explain the UML
What Is the UML, and Why Is It Important?
A Second, Less Trivial Example
The Third Example
And Now for the Relevance to Software
Raising the Level of Abstraction
Recap
Chapter7.Coding
How Managers Can Learn a New Programming Language
The Problem, Better Defined
What Should the Standard Problem Contain?
The Animal Game
Does the Animal Game Fit the Criteria?
Does It Pass the So What? Test?
It s Your Game
Recap
Chapter8.Getting It Out the Door
If You Build It, They Will Come
In the Beginning, There Was the Sandbox
Why Should the Product Build Be Hard, Anyway?
What About Iterative Development?
Recap
Part3.THE PROJECT-MANAGEMENT VIEW
Chapter9.Trade-Offs
The Project Pyramid
Five, Not Four
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