Successful Software Development Study Guide, 2nd Edition

Description

The hands-on workbook for consistently successful software development!

• Facilitate note taking for self-study and/or in the classroom
• Jumpstart development of "how-to-do-it" presentations
• Augment existing training/classroom material in the areas of
• Practical software engineering
• Software process improvement
• Software measurement
• Refresh understanding of key engineering concepts

Now, master proven, yet practical, techniques for delivering software that does what customers want it to do, on time, and within budget. Software development should not be a lottery!

With the Successful Software Development Study Guide, you gain insight into every stage of the software development life cycle and practical skills you'll use on your very next project! Working from this study guide's easy presentation format, you learn how to do the following:

• Develop a Systems Engineering Environment (SEE)—a complete, coherent model for consistent software development
• Create plans that reflect the need for change - and account for real-world risks
• Establish practical product development and management policies and procedures
• Improve the dialogue between developers and customers
• Use Object Measurement metrics that are business-focused and easily understood
• Manage the multiple constituencies, personalities, issues, and egos that complicate software development

Successful Software Development Study Guide includes over 500 landscape-formatted pages containing process diagrams; annotated outlines for SEE policies, guidelines, standards, and procedures; change control forms; and worked-out examples-all designed to help you deepen your knowledge and jumpstart your thinking.

Whatever kind of software you develop-desktop, server, component-based, Internet-focused, even hand-held-this study guide can help make it happen.

Sample Content

Table of Contents

1. Business Case.

Introduction. Business Case Key Ideas. What Makes Good Business Sense? Software Systems Development Concepts. Product “Goodness” and Process “Goodness.” Requisite Software Systems Development Disciplines. Generic Four-Stage Software Systems Development Life Cycle. User, Buyer, and Seller Organizations Involved in Software Systems Development. Obstacles to Improving Software Systems Development Cultures. Alternative Approaches to Software Process Improvement. Preview of the Rest of Book.

2. Project Planning Process.

Introduction. Project Planning Key Ideas. Life Cycle Role in Project Planning. Ideal, Real, and Realistic Project Planning. Risk Assessment and Project Planning. Project Planning Process. Project Plan Contents. Project Planning Summary.

3. Software Systems Development Process.

Introduction. Software Systems Development Process Key Ideas. Software Systems Development Process Overview. Customer. Seller Process Engineering Group. Customer/Seller Development Team and Change Control Board (CCB). Seller Senior Management. Software Systems Development Process Summary.

4. Change Control Process.

Introduction. Change Control Process Key Ideas. Planned and Unplanned Change. The Processing of Changes. Examination of the Change Control Board. Paperwork Support of the Change Control Board. Change Control Process Summary.

5. Product and Process Reviews.

Introduction. Product and Process Reviews Key Ideas. A Taxonomy of Product and Process Reviews. Combining Reviews for Software Audits. Product and Process Reviews Summary.

6. Measurement.

Introduction. Measurement Key Ideas. Product Integrity. Process Integrity. Capability Maturity Model (CMM) for Software. Other Process-Related Measurements. Measurement Summary.

7. Cultural Change.

Introduction. Cultural Change Key Ideas. Process Engineering Group (PEG). Seller Project Participants and Project Managers. Buyer/User Project Management. Buyer/User Senior Management. Seller Senior Management. Cultural Change Summary.

8. Process Improvement Planning.

Introduction. SEE Implementation Planning Key Ideas. Key SEE Implementation Planning Issues. Making Successful Software Development Happen.

Appendix A. How to Measure Strategic Information Management (SIM).

Strategic Information Management. Quantifying Strategic Information Management. Diagnostic Areas and Diagnostic Criteria. OM Measurement Map and Measurement Trends. Summary.

Appendix B. List of Figures.


Appendix C. List of Tables.


Bibliography.


Index.

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