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Software Project Survival Guide: How to be Sure Your First Important Project isn't Your Last
Equip yourself with SOFTWARE PROJECT SURVIVAL GUIDE. It's for everyone with a stake in the outcome of a development project--and especially for those without formal software project management training. That includes top managers, executives, clients, investors, end-user representatives, project managers, and technical leads. Here you'll find guidance
from the acclaimed author of the classics CODE COMPLETE and RAPID DEVELOPMENT. Steve McConnell draws on solid research and a career's worth of hard-won experience to map the surest path to your goal--what he calls "one specific approach to software development that works pretty well most of the time for most projects." Nineteen chapters in four sections cover the concepts and strategies you need for mastering the development process, including planning, design, management, quality assurance, testing, and archiving. For newcomers and seasoned project managers alike, SOFTWARE PROJECT SURVIVAL GUIDE draws on a vast store of techniques to create an elegantly simplified and reliable framework for project management success. So don't worry about wandering among complex sets of project management techniques that require years to sort out and master. SOFTWARE PROJECT SURVIVAL GUIDE goes straight to the heart of the matter to help your projects succeed. And that makes it a required addition to every professional's bookshelf.
Contents
Acknowledgments vi
Preliminary Survival Briefing vii
I The Survival Mind-Set
1 Welcome to Software Project Survival Training 3
2 Software Project Survival Test 11
3 Survival Concepts 19
4 Survival Skills 35
5 The Successful Project at a Glance 51
II Survival Preparations
6 Hitting a Moving Target 73
7 Preliminary Planning 85
8 Requirements Development 113
9 Quality Assurance 125
10 Architecture 143
11 Final Preparations 155
III Succeeding by Stages
12 Beginning-of-Stage Planning 173
13 Detailed Design 187
14 Construction 199
15 System Testing 215
16 Software Release 221
17 End-of-Stage Wrap-Up 237
IV Mission Accomplished
18 Project History 247
19 Survival Crib Notes 253
Epilogue 261
Notes 263
Glossary 273
Index 283
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