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| Case Studies | |
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| Reference Tables | |
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| Preface | |
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| Efficient Development | |
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| Welcome to Rapid Development | |
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| What Is Rapid Development? | |
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| Attaining Rapid Development | |
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| Rapid-Development Strategy | |
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| General Strategy for Rapid Development | |
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| Four Dimensions of Development Speed | |
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| General Kinds of Fast Development | |
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| Which Dimension Matters the Most? | |
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| An Alternative Rapid-Development Strategy | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Classic Mistakes | |
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| Case Study in Classic Mistakes | |
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| Effect of Mistakes on a Development Schedule | |
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| Classic Mistakes Enumerated | |
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| Escape from Gilligan's Island | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Software-Development Fundamentals | |
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| Management Fundamentals | |
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| Technical Fundamentals | |
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| Quality-Assurance Fundamentals | |
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| Following the Instructions | |
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| Further General Reading | |
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| Risk Management | |
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| Elements of Risk Management | |
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| Risk Identification | |
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| Risk Analysis | |
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| Risk Prioritization | |
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| Risk Control | |
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| Risk, High Risk, and Gambling | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Rapid Development | |
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| Core Issues in Rapid Development | |
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| Does One Size Fit All? | |
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| What Kind of Rapid Development Do You Need? | |
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| Odds of Completing on Time | |
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| Perception and Reality | |
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| Where the Time Goes | |
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| Development-Speed Trade-Offs | |
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| Typical Schedule-Improvement Pattern | |
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| Onward to Rapid Development | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Lifecycle Planning | |
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| Pure Waterfall | |
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| Code-and-Fix | |
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| Spiral | |
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| Modified Waterfalls | |
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| Evolutionary Prototyping | |
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| Staged Delivery | |
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| Design-to-Schedule | |
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| Evolutionary Delivery | |
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| Design-to-Tools | |
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| Commercial Off-the-Shelf Software | |
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| Choosing the Most Rapid Lifecycle for Your Project | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Estimation | |
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| The Software-Estimation Story | |
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| Estimation-Process Overview | |
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| Size Estimation | |
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| Effort Estimation | |
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| Schedule Estimation | |
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| Ballpark Schedule Estimates | |
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| Estimate Refinement | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Scheduling | |
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| Overly Optimistic Scheduling | |
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| Beating Schedule Pressure | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Customer-Oriented Development | |
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| Customers' Importance to Rapid Development | |
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| Customer-Oriented Practices | |
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| Managing Customer Expectations | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Motivation | |
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| Typical Developer Motivations | |
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| Using the Top Five Motivation Factors | |
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| Using Other Motivation Factors | |
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| Morale Killers | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Teamwork | |
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| Software Uses of Teamwork | |
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| Teamwork's Importance to Rapid Development | |
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| Creating a High-Performance Team | |
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| Why Teams Fail | |
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| Long-Term Teambuilding | |
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| Summary of Teamwork Guidelines | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Team Structure | |
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| Team-Structure Considerations | |
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| Team Models | |
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| Managers and Technical Leads | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Feature-Set Control | |
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| Early Project: Feature-Set Reduction | |
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| Mid-Project: Feature-Creep Control | |
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| Late Project: Feature Cuts | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Productivity Tools | |
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| Role of Productivity Tools in Rapid Development | |
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| Productivity-Tool Strategy | |
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| Productivity-Tool Acquisition | |
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| Productivity-Tool Use | |
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| Silver-Bullet Syndrome | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Project Recovery | |
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| General Recovery Options | |
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| Recovery Plan | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Best Practices | |
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| Introduction to Best Practices | |
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| Organization of Best-Practice Chapters | |
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| Summary of Best-Practice Candidates | |
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| Summary of Best-Practice Evaluations | |
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| Change Board | |
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| Daily Build and Smoke Test | |
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| Designing for Change | |
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| Evolutionary Delivery | |
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| Evolutionary Prototyping | |
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| Goal Setting | |
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| Inspections | |
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| Joint Application Development (JAD) | |
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| Lifecycle Model Selection | |
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| Measurement | |
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| Miniature Milestones | |
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| Outsourcing | |
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| Principled Negotiation | |
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| Productivity Environments | |
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| Rapid-Development Languages (RDLs) | |
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| Requirements Scrubbing | |
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| Reuse | |
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| Signing Up | |
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| Spiral Lifecycle Model | |
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| Staged Delivery | |
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| Theory-W Management | |
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| Throwaway Prototyping | |
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| Timebox Development | |
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| Tools Group | |
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| Top-10 Risks List | |
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| User-Interface Prototyping | |
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| Voluntary Overtime | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |