Planning Smarter
Creating Blueprint Quality Software Specifications
208 pages, parution le 27/03/2002
Résumé
Software planning and specification development: no
fluff—just results!
2. Understanding the Planning Process.
3. Improving the Planning Process.
4. The Role of Communication in Planning.
5. Strategies to Support Effective Planning.
6. Software Process Models.
7. Planning Metadata.
8. Software and Beyond.
9. The Software Blueprinter Application.
10. Wrap Up.
Appendix: Postmortem Interview and Analysis.
References.
List of Terms.
Index.
- Create better specifications-with less complexity, and less work!
- Best practices that work with any language or development environment
- CD-ROM exclusive: Software Blueprinter, a powerful software application for real-world specification development
- For all software team members: developers, architects, managers, clients, and software quality specialists
Planning Smarter demystifies software planning, cuts out to the chase, and shows exactly how to create higher quality, more useful specifications with less complexity and less work! Tyson Gill presents a complete blueprint for improving the quality of your software specifications, reducing errors and omissions, simplifying planning, and establishing a rock-solid foundation for any software development project. Coverage includes:
- Understanding the planning process-and why it so often fails
- Getting the planning process "just right" and identifying the best lifecycle approach
- Optimizing the communication that is critical to successful planning
- 13 powerful strategies for more effective requirements development
- Planning in the context of leading software process models: CMM, MSF, UML, and RUP
- Recognizing and making effective use of planning metadata
Planning Smarter is an invaluable resource for every member of the software development project team. It will help executives and clients understand the key factors associated with success-and it will give planners, developers, architects, and team leaders the proven teneed to build specifications that work.
CD-ROM INCLUDEDThe accompanying CD-ROM contains Software Blueprinter, a powerful specification development application that embodies the key principles in this book.
ContentsPreface.
1. About Planning Smarter.
The Companion BooK.
Executive SummarY. Getting Acquainted.
Acknowledgments.
2. Understanding the Planning Process.
The Pathology of Poor
Planning. The Vision Document. The Functional
Specification. Recognizing a Bad Plan. Excellence Is
Attainable. A Software Blueprint.
3. Improving the Planning Process.
A Project Planning Plan.
Planning Phases. Life-cycle Models. Choosing a Life-cycle
Approach. An Adaptive Life-cycle Approach. Process and Role
Overlap. Getting Planning Just Right.
4. The Role of Communication in Planning.
Software Communications
101. Use Simple Language. Go Look It Up. The Data
Dictionary. Anyone Can Pseudocode. Show Me the Prototype!
Direct to Blueprint. Effective Requirements Elicitation.
Software for Planning. Creative Software Writing.
5. Strategies to Support Effective Planning.
Putting Theory into
Practice. A Developer Focus. Enlist a Champion. Hire the
Cream. Specialize. Trust in Instinct. Collaborate.
Catalyze. Work Smarter. Change Facilitation. Living with
Estimates. No Silver Bullets. Code Smarter.
6. Software Process Models.
Best Practices. The
Capability Maturity Model. The Microsoft Solution
Framework. The Unified Modeling Language. The Rational
Unified Process.
7. Planning Metadata.
Using MetadataEffectively.
Types of Metadata. Envisioning Phase Metadocuments.
Analysis Phase Metadocuments. Design Phase Metadocuments.
Architecture Phase Metadocuments. Other
Metadocuments.
8. Software and Beyond.
Software and the Future.
Software and Ethics. Software and Clients. Software and the
Secrets Clients Should Know. Software and the CEO. Software
and Process Improvement.
9. The Software Blueprinter Application.
About Software
Blueprinter. Using Software Blueprinter. Applying Software
Blueprinter. Possible Enhancements.
10. Wrap Up.
Nonnegotiable Demands. On
the CD-ROM. Restrictions of Software Use. Join the
Discussion. The Last Word.
Appendix: Postmortem Interview and Analysis.
References.
List of Terms.
Index.
Caractéristiques techniques
| PAPIER | |
| Éditeur(s) | Prentice Hall |
| Auteur(s) | Tyson Gill |
| Parution | 27/03/2002 |
| Nb. de pages | 208 |
| Format | 17,8 x 23,4 |
| Couverture | Broché |
| Poids | 460g |
| Intérieur | Noir et Blanc |
| EAN13 | 9780130654144 |
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