The Bottom Line on Theory-W Management
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
No quantitative data is available on the extent of schedule reductions resulting from Theory-W's use, but it seems apparent that Theory-W reduces schedule risk and can improve perceived development speed. In test cases, Theory-W has performed well (Boehm et al. 1995).
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