Summary of Best-Practice Evaluations
by Steve McConnell
Rapid Development: Taming Wild Software Schedules
- Rapid Development: Taming Wild Software Schedules
- Preface
- I. EFFICIENT DEVELOPMENT
- 1. Welcome to Rapid Development
- 2. Rapid-Development Strategy
- 3. Classic Mistakes
- 4. Software-Development Fundamentals
- 5. Risk Management
- II. RAPID DEVELOPMENT
- 6. Core Issues in Rapid Development
- 7. Lifecycle Planning
- 8. Estimation
- The Software-Estimation Story
- Estimation-Process Overview
- Size Estimation
- Effort Estimation
- Schedule Estimation
- Estimate Refinement
- Further Reading
- 9. Scheduling
- 10. Customer-Oriented Development
- 11. Motivation
- 12. Teamwork
- Software Uses of Teamwork
- Teamwork's Importance to Rapid Development
- Creating a High-Performance Team
- Shared, Elevating Vision or Goal
- Sense of Team Identity
- Results-Driven Structure
- Competent Team Members
- Commitment to the Team
- Mutual Trust
- Interdependence Among Members
- Effective Communication
- Sense of Autonomy
- Sense of Empowerment
- Small Team Size
- High Level of Enjoyment
- How to Manage a High-Performance Team
- Why Teams Fail
- Long-Term Teambuilding
- Summary of Teamwork Guidelines
- Further Reading
- 13. Team Structure
- 14. Feature-Set Control
- 15. Productivity Tools
- 16. Project Recovery
- III. BEST PRACTICES
- Introduction to Best Practices
- 17. Change Board
- 18. Daily Build and Smoke Test
- Using the Daily Build and Smoke Test
- Managing the Risks of the Daily Build and Smoke Test
- Side Effects of the Daily Build and Smoke Test
- The Daily Build and Smoke Test's Interactions with Other Practices
- The Bottom Line on the Daily Build and Smoke Test
- Keys to Success in Using the Daily Build and Smoke Test
- Further Reading
- 19. Designing for Change
- 20. Evolutionary Delivery
- 21. Evolutionary Prototyping
- 22. Goal Setting
- 23. Inspections
- 24. Joint Application Development (JAD)
- 25. Lifecycle Model Selection
- 26. Measurement
- 27. Miniature Milestones
- 28. Outsourcing
- 29. Principled Negotiation
- 30. Productivity Environments
- 31. Rapid-Development Languages (RDLs)
- 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
- Using User-Interface Prototyping
- Managing the Risks of User-Interface Prototyping
- Side Effects of User-Interface Prototyping
- User-Interface Prototyping's Interactions with Other Practices
- The Bottom Line on User-Interface Prototyping
- Keys to Success in Using User-Interface Prototyping
- Further Reading
- 43. Voluntary Overtime
- A. Bibliography
- Index
Table III-2 provides a side-by-side comparison of the best practices discussed in Chapters Chapter 17–Chapter 43.
Table 33. Summary of Best-Practice Evaluations
Best-Practice Name | Potential Reduction From Nominal Schedule | Improvement in Progress Visibility | Effect on Schedule Risk | Chance of First-Time Success | Chance of Long-Term Success |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Change Board | Fair | Fair | Decreased | Very Good | Excellent |
Daily Build and Smoke Test | Good | Good | Decreased | Very Good | Excellent |
Designing for Change | Fair | None | Decreased | Good | Excellent |
Evolutionary Delivery | Good | Excellent | Decreased | Very Good | Excellent |
Evolutionary Prototyping | Excellent | Excellent | Increased | Very Good | Excellent |
Goal Setting (goal of shortest schedule) | Very Good | None | Increased | Good | Very Good |
Goal Setting (goal of least risk) | None | Good | Decreased | Good | Very Good |
Goal Setting (goal of maximum visibility) | None | Excellent | Decreased | Good | Very Good |
Inspections | Very Good | Fair | Decreased | Good | Excellent |
Joint Application Development (JAD) | Good | Fair | Decreased | Good | Excellent |
Lifecycle Model Selection | Fair | Fair | Decreased | Very Good | Excellent |
Measurement | Very Good | Good | Decreased | Good | Excellent |
Miniature Milestones | Fair | Very Good | Decreased | Good | Excellent |
Outsourcing | Excellent | None | Increased | Good | Very Good |
Principled Negotiation | None | Very Good | Decreased | Very Good | Excellent |
Productivity Environments | Good | None | No Effect | Good | Very Good |
Rapid-Development Languages (RDLs) | Good | None | Increased | Good | Very Good |
Requirements Scrubbing | Very Good | None | Decreased | Very Good | Excellent |
Reuse | Excellent | None | Decreased | Poor | Very Good |
Signing Up | Very Good | None | Increased | Fair | Good |
Spiral Lifecycle Model | Fair | Very Good | Decreased | Good | Excellent |
Staged Delivery | None | Good | Decreased | Very Good | Excellent |
Theory-W Management | None | Very Good | Decreased | Excellent | Excellent |
Throwaway Prototyping | Fair | None | Decreased | Excellent | Excellent |
Timebox Development | Excellent | None | Decreased | Good | Excellent |
Tools Group | Good | None | Decreased | Good | Very Good |
Top-10 Risks List | None | Very Good | Decreased | Excellent | Excellent |
User-Interface Prototyping | Good | Fair | Decreased | Excellent | Excellent |
Voluntary Overtime | Good | None | Increased | Fair | Very Good |
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