Ship It! A Practical Guide to Successful Software Projects

Name: Ship It! A Practical Guide to Successful Software Projects
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ISBN: 9780974514048

ISBN-10: 0974514047

ISBN-13: 9780974514048

Edition: 2005

Authors: Jared Richardson, William A. Gwaltney, William A. Gwaltney

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Ship It! is a collection of tips that show the tools and techniques a successful project team has to use, and how to use them well. You'll get quick, easy-to-follow advice on modern practices: which to use, and when they should be applied. This book avoids current fashion trends and marketing hype; instead, readers find page after page of solid advice, all tried and tested in the real world. Aimed at beginning to intermediate programmers, Ship It! will show you: Which tools help, and which don't How to keep a project moving Approaches to scheduling that work How to build developers as well as product What's normal on a project, and what's not How to manage managers, end-users…

Book details

List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Pragmatic Programmers, LLC, The
Publication date: 6/21/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 200
Size: 7.48" wide x 9.21" long x 0.44" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English



Foreword


Preface



Introduction



Habitual Excellence



A Pragmatic Point of View



Road Map



Moving On



How Should I Read This Book?



Tools and Infrastructure



Develop in a Sandbox



Manage Assets



Script Your Build



Build Automatically



Track Issues



Track Features



Use a Testing Harness



On Choosing Tools



When Not to Experiment



Pragmatic Project Techniques



Work from The List



A Tech Leads



Coordinate and Communicate Every Day



Review All Code



Send Code Change Notifications



Putting It All Together



Tracer Bullet Development



Common Problems and How to Fix Them



Help! I've Inherited Legacy Code



Testing Untestable Code



Features Keep Breaking



Tests? We Stopped Using Them



But It Works for Me!



It Hurts When I Integrate Code



Can't Build the Product Reliably



Customers Are Unhappy



You've Got a Rogue Developer



Your Manager Is Unhappy



Team Doesn't Work Well Together



Can't Get "Buy-in" on Essential Points



The New Practice Didn't Help



There's No Automated Testing



We're Junior Developers, With No Mentor



We're on a "Death March" Project



Features Keep Creeping In



We're Never Done



Tip Summary



Source Code Management



Build Scripting Tools



Continuous Integration Systems



Issue Tracking Software



Development Methodologies



Testing Frameworks



Suggested Reading List



Bibliography