The Software Development Edge(c) Essays on Managing Successful Projects
The Software Development Edge(c) Essays on Managing Successful Projects
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Year: 2006
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Pages: 269
- 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
- Enter the Pyramid
- The Altitude Variable
- The Pyramid s Volume Is Constant
- A Statistical Interlude
- Right Idea, Wrong Distribution
- Implications for Real Projects
- What Does It Take to Get to a Coin Flip?
- More Confidence
- Important Caveats
- It s All About Risk
- Recap
- Chapter10.Estimating
- What If We Used Common Sense?
- Chocolate Versus Vanilla
- Roscoe Explains
- Roscoe Goes Deeper
- Roscoe s Calendar
- Roscoe Computes
- Roscoe Gets into Software
- Roscoe Reports In
- Guess We Did Something Right
- Roscoe Sums It Up
- Roscoe Picks a Bone
- Guess We Did Something Right, Part Two
- Roscoe Admitted to Software Project Manager Fraternity
- Recap
- Chapter11.Scheduling
- Roscoe Poses the Problem: How Late Are You Gonna Be?
- Joe Makes a Slight Comeback
- Roscoe Returns
- Roscoe s Rogue s Gallery
- Roscoe s Graph
- One Last Objection
- Roscoe s Parting Shot
- Recap
- Chapter12.Rhythm
- A Physicist Looks at Project Progress
- Reality Intrudes
- What About Iterative Development?
- One Last Graph
- Recap
- Part4.THE HUMAN ELEMENT
- Chapter13.Politics
- Context
- Definition
- Three Scenarios
- Politics Is Inevitable, But
- When Things Get Political
- The Engineering Mapping
- High-Trust Environments
- Other Variants of Bad Politics
- Recap
- Chapter14.Negotiating
- Communication Is Everything
- Roscoe Explains His Theory
- Are We Done Yet?
- Recap
- Chapter15.Signing Up
- Roscoe Gets His Nose Bloodied
- And Immediately Cuts to the Chase
- Vesuvius Erupts
- How They Do It in Texas
- The Relevance to Software
- The Dog Ate My Homework
- Spec Wars?
- The Three Most Common Excuses
- And Another Thing
- Thrust, Parry, and Riposte
- Large Project Chicken
- The End of Software Development as We Know It?
- Elaboration Versus Construction
- Tough Love
- Recap
- Chapter16.Compensation
- Going for the Flow
- Flow and Software Development Performance
- Applying the Flow Model to Compensation
- Money Isn t Always the Answer
- Recap
- Part5.THINKING LATERALLY
- Chapter17.History Lesson
- Don t Let the King Be Your Architect
- Things Aren t Always as They Seem
- Checking the Design
- Knowing What You Don t Know
- Continuity of Leadership
- In a Hurry, As Usual
- Focusing on the Wrong Features
- When the Design Is Bad
- The Relevance of Testing
- Prototype Versus Product
- The Inquest
- Recap
- Chapter18.Bad Analogies
- Houston, We Have a Problem
- Fig Newtons
- Everything s Relative
- Quantum Nonsense
- Heat Death
- Other Examples
- Good Science
- Recap
- Chapter19.The Refresh Problem
- Refreshing Embedded Software
- The Current Situation
- The Software Upgrade Game
- A Modest Proposal
- Software Upgrades, Revisited
- Some Nice Things Come for Free
- Why This Will Work
- Refinement
- What About Software Piracy?
- Until the Sun Takes Over
- Recap
- Chapter20.Not So Random Numbers
- Roscoe Sets the Stage
- Simulating the Batter
- First Steps
- Second Steps
- Generating More Probabilities
- Of Course, We ve Already Left the World of Baseball
- Reality Is Ugly
- Monday s Solution
- Lessons Learned
- Recap
- Part6.ADVANCED TOPICS
- Chapter21.Crisis
- The Five Days of the Fish
- The Fish Market
- Day 1: Unaware
- Day 2: Avoiding the Issue
- Day 3: Enter The Fixer
- Day 4: The Turning Point
- Day 5: Two Critical Paths
- Moral of the Story
- Recap
- Chapter22.Growth
- Growth Issues
- The Nave Model
- Consequences of the Model
- An Illustrative Example
- Non-Linearity
- Call to Action
- Conclusions
- Nomograph
- Spreadsheet
- Recap
- Chapter23.Culture
- What Is a Culture?
- Strong and Weak Cultures
- Defining Corporate Values
- And the Applicability to Software Is
- Building a Strong Culture
- When You re Looking for a Job
- The Bottom Line
- Recap
- Chapter24.Putting It All Together
- Schlepper
- Macher
- Mensch
- More on Mensches
- Population Distribution
- Some Final Thoughts on the Model
- Recap
- Acknowledgments
- Index
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The Software Development Edge(c) Essays on Managing Successful Projects
ISBN: N/A
EAN: N/A
EAN: N/A
Year: 2006
Pages: 269
Pages: 269