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| The Software Engineer's Job | |
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| What is Software Engineering? | |
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| Why is Good Engineering Important? | |
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| The Personal Software Process | |
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| The Discipline of High-Quality Work | |
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| The Importance of High-Quality Work | |
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| How to Improve the Quality of Your Work | |
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| The Improvement Process | |
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| The Strategy of this Book | |
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| The Management | |
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| The Logic of Time Management | |
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| Understanding How You Spend Time | |
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| The Engineering Notebook | |
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| The Notebook Design | |
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| Engineering Notebook Examples | |
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| Tracking Time | |
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| Why Track Time? | |
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| Recording Time Data | |
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| Tracking Your Time | |
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| Use a Standard Time Recording Log | |
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| Handling Interruptions | |
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| Tracking Completed Tasks | |
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| Keeping Time Logs in the Engineering Notebook | |
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| Hints on Logging Your Time | |
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| Period and Product Planning | |
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| Period and Product Plans | |
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| The Weekly Activity Summary | |
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| Summarizing Weekly Times | |
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| Calculating Period Times and Rates | |
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| Using the Weekly Activity Summary | |
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| Product Planning | |
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| The Need for Product Plans | |
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| Why Product Plans Are Helpful | |
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| What is a Product Plan? | |
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| Product Planning in this Book | |
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| Planning Small Jobs | |
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| Some Definitions | |
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| The Job Number Log | |
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| Some Suggestions on Using the Job Number Log | |
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| Using Product Times and Rates Data | |
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| Product Size | |
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| The Product Planning Process | |
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| Size Measurement | |
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| Some Cautions on Using Size Measures | |
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| Program Size | |
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| Other Size Measures | |
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| Estimating Program Size | |
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| Making a Larger Size Estimate | |
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| Using Size Measures in the Job Number Log | |
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| Managing Your Time | |
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| Elements of Time Management | |
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| Categorizing Your Activities | |
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| Gather Data on Time Spent by Activity | |
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| Evaluating Your Time Distribution | |
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| Making a Time Budget | |
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| Finding More Time | |
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| Setting Ground Rules | |
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| Prioritizing Your Time | |
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| Managing Your Time Budget | |
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| Suggestions on Managing Variable Time | |
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| Your Time Management Objective | |
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| Managing Commitments | |
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| Defining Commitment | |
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| Responsibly Made Commitments | |
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| Example of a Commitment | |
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| An Example in Industry | |
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| Handling Missed Commitments | |
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| The Importance of Managing Commitments | |
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| The Consequences of Not Managing Commitments | |
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| The Way to Manage Commitments | |
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| Managing Schedules | |
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| The Need for Schedules | |
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| The Gantt Chart | |
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| Making a Project Schedule | |
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| Checkpoints | |
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| Tracking Project Plans | |
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| Tracking Earned Value | |
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| The Project Plan | |
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| The Need for Project Plans | |
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| The Project Plan Summary | |
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| The Summary | |
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| Program Size | |
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| Time in Phase | |
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| Estimating Accuracy | |
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| The Software Development Process | |
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| Why We Use Processes | |
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| Some Definitions | |
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| The Process Script | |
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| Checkpoints and Phases | |
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| The Updated Project Plan Summary Form | |
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| A Planning Example | |
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| An Example of To Date Calculations | |
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| Defects | |
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| What is Software Quality? | |
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| Defects and Quality | |
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| What are Defects? | |
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