Planning Smarter

Creating Blueprint Quality Software Specifications

Tyson Gill

208 pages, parution le 27/03/2002

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Résumé

Software planning and specification development: no fluff—just results!

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 INCLUDED

The accompanying CD-ROM contains Software Blueprinter, a powerful specification development application that embodies the key principles in this book.

Contents

Preface.
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