Rapid development: Taming wild software schedules
Steve McConnel
Microsoft Press, 1996
ISBN: 1-55615-900-5
Despite possible expectation this book is not about software tools and technologies but about project managemet.
Part 1 Efficient Development
1. Welcome to rapid development
2. Rapid-development strategy
3. Classic mistakes
4. Sodtware-Development fundamentals
5. Risk management
Part 2 Rapid development
6. Core issues in rapid development
7. Lifecycle planning
8. Estimation
9. Scheduling
10. Customer oriented development
11. Motivation
12. Teamwork
13. Team structure
14. Feature-Set control
15. Productivity tools
16. Project recovery
Part 3 Best Practices
17. Change board
18. Daily build and smoke test
19. Designing for change
20. Evolutionary delivery
21. Evolutionary prototyping
22. Goal settings
23. Inspections
24. Joint Application Development (JAD)
25. Lifecycle Model Selection
26. Measurement
27. Miniature milestones
28. Outsourcing
29. Principled negotiations
30. Productivity environments
31. Rapid-development languages (RDL)
32. Requirements scrubbing
33. Reuse
34. Signing up
35. Spiral lifecycle model
36. Staged delivery
37. Theory-W management
38. Throwaway prototyping
39. Timebox development
40. Tools group
41. Top-10 risks list
42. User-interface prototyping
43. Voluntary overtime
Read on Jun. 10 - Aug. 20, 2022, approx 27 hours
