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The Importance of Process-Planning in Software Projects

"With poorly planned processes, developers spend a lot of their time correcting mistakes."
Necessary Aspects of a Software Development Process

"Success in software development depends on making a carefully planned series of small mistakes in order to avoid making unplanned large mistakes."
Implementing Change-Control While Developing Software Projects

"Effective projects control changes; ineffective projects allow changes to control them."
Essentials of Preliminary Planning for Software Projects

"The effective software project manager acts as an orchestra conductor, as the person who coordinates the work of the team."
An Approach to Software Requirements Development

"Requirements gathering and specification is an open-ended activity."
Assuring Quality Throughout the Software Development Process

"The only way to break the testing addiction cycle is to bite the bullet and allocate the upstream resources needed for quality assurance on a project."
Necessary Steps in Software Architecture Development

"The architecture should contain a high-level discussion of the major design alternatives that were considered, the reasons that the selected approaches were chosen, and the reasons other alternatives were not selected."
The Final Stage of Planning for Software Projects: Estimates and Staged Delivery Plans

"It is important to drive the software to a releasable quality level often, in order to prevent the project from accumulating a host of loose ends that can't be tied up when you actually do want to release the software."
Planning a Series of Separate Stages for Software Development Projects

"Shaky estimates are facts of life in software projects, and staged deliveries help to minimize the damage shaky estimates can cause."
 


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Software Project Survival Guide
Steve McConnell

Microsoft Press
1998
Copyright (c) 1998 by Steve McConnell.


Biography: Steve McConnell is a consultant to leading software companies (including Microsoft), the winner of two Jolt awards for his books Code Complete and Rapid Development, editor of IEEE Software's "Best Practices" column, and an active developer.

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Each Suite contains extracts from 3 to 10 books focused on a single business concept

  • The Promise of the Networked Enterprise
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    • Technology & The Bottom-Line Peter Weill, Marianne Broadbent, Susan Cook, Daniel Morris, Michael Tushman, Joel Brandon, Roger Dow, David Nadler, Peter Cohan, William Halal, Walid Mougayar, Kate Maddox, Dana Blankenhorn, Jim Sterne
  • Strategies for Software Development
    • Software Project Management Michael Cusumano, David Yoffie, Randall Englund, Robert Graham, Jolyon Hallows, James Lewis, Steve McConnell, James Brian Quinn, Jordan Baruch, Karen Anne Zien
  • Using Databases & Data Warehousing
  • Reorganizing & Reengineering Work
    • Aligning Technology & Structure Sebastian Nokes, Price Waterhouse, Stephen Redwood, Charles Goldwasser, Simon Street, John Sifonis, Richard Spinello, Wayne Toms, Brian Bloomfield, Dale Littler, David Knights, Rod Coombs, Robert Prescott, Robert Chapman, Kathleen Andrade, Beverly Goldberg, Maria Taylor, Thomas Koulopoulos, William Rothwell
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    • IT Outsourcing Price Waterhouse, Brad Peterson, Diane Carco, Maurice Greaver, Robert Chapman, Kathleen Andrade, James Best
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    • Managing Your Web Site David Siegel, with Pat House, Charles Trepper, Peter Cohan, Thomas Siebel, Micro Modelling Associates, Jim Sterne
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    • Partner Communications Pauline Bickerton, Matthew Bickerton, Kate Simpson-Holley, Martin Deise, Conrad Nowikow, Patrick King, Amy Wright, Ryan Bernard, Micro Modelling Associates, Julie Bort, Bradley Felix, Ron Ashkenas, Dave Ulrich, Todd Jick, Steve Kerr
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    • Technology and Strategy Options Carl Shapiro, Hal Varian, Peter Weill, Marianne Broadbent, Larry Downes, Chunka Mui, Gary Hamel, Chuck Martin, James McGee, Laurence Prusak, Karl Erick Sveiby, Charles Poirier, Stephen Reiter, James Brian Quinn, Jordan Baruch, Karen Anne Zien, Gene Tyndall, Christopher Gopal, Wolfgang Partsch, John Kamauff, Prahalad, Dorothy Leonard
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