| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 247 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Skills for Managing Rapidly Changing IT Projects -- Preface -- Book Organization -- Author Biography -- Part I -- Team Working -- Values -- Communication -- Simplicity -- Feedback -- Creating the group -- Common practices for team working -- Time Management -- Values -- Simplicity -- Courage -- Daily activities -- Weekly planning -- Monthly strategy -- Tools for time management -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Presentation -- Values -- Communication -- Phase 1: prepare the presentation -- On-line presentations -- Presentation with slides -- Linear -- Sandwiched -- Structured -- Problem oriented -- Color usage in slides -- Paper presentations -- Phase 2: prepare the speech -- On-line presentations -- Presentation with slides -- Paper presentations -- Phase 3: the speech -- The voice -- The body -- The appearance -- The look -- Training -- Values -- Communication -- Simplicity -- Feedback -- Training in practice -- Train your team -- Phase 1 -- Phase 2 -- Train the customer -- Train the partner -- People Management -- Values -- Communication -- Feedback -- People management in practice -- Team Motivation -- Dealing with problems -- Tools for people management -- People in the project: How many? -- Bibliography -- Delegation -- Values -- Simplicity -- Feedback -- Courage -- Delegation at work -- Target of delegation activity -- What can you delegate? -- How can you delegate? -- Bibliography -- Part II |
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The target business environment -- Project lifetime -- Project effort -- Project type -- Project technology -- People factor -- Bibliography -- Classical Methodologies for Project Management -- Waterfall life cycle -- Feasibility Study -- Analysis -- Project specification -- Development -- Integration and test -- Deployment -- Maintenance -- Prototyping life cycle -- Requirements -- Fast Projects -- Prototyping -- Requirement review -- Engineered product -- Spiral life cycle -- Objective and bounds -- Evaluate Alternatives -- Develop and Verify -- Planning -- Risk Management -- Target and benefit of risks analysis -- Risk indicators -- Risk Evaluation -- Risk Identification -- Risk Analysis -- Risk Classification -- Risk Control -- Planning of risk control -- Risk solving -- Risk Monitoring -- Bibliography -- Agile development -- Individuals and interactions over process and tools -- Actions -- Benefits -- Side effects -- Overdose -- Working Software over comprehensive documentation -- Actions -- Benefits -- Side effects -- Overdose -- Customer collaboration over contract negotiation -- Actions -- Benefits -- Side effects -- Overdose -- Responding to change over following a plan -- Actions -- Benefits -- Side effects -- Overdose -- The agile team -- Bibliography -- eXtreme Programming -- XP Values -- Communication -- Simplicity -- Feedback -- Courage -- XP Rules -- Metaphor -- Planning game -- Small releases |
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Tests -- Simple design -- Re-factoring -- Pair programming -- Continuous integration -- Collective ownership -- On-site customer -- 40 hours weeks -- Coding standards -- Conclusion -- Life Cycle of an XP Project -- Bibliography -- Agile and Defined Project Development -- ADPD life cycle -- Walking Skeleton Phase -- Release phase -- ADPD practices -- Analysis and design practices -- Small releases -- On-site customer -- Planning game -- Management of requirements -- Development practices -- Pair Programming -- Coding standards -- Adoption of Concurrent Version System -- Test practices -- Unit Test -- Test Suite -- Functional Test -- Deployment and release practices -- Regression Testing -- General and management practices -- Project Documentation -- Agile Inter-group improvement Team -- Track and measure -- 15 minutes daily standing meeting -- Training -- Bibliography -- ADPD and SW-CMM -- KPA 2.1 Requirement management -- KPA 2.2 Software project planning -- KPA 2.3 Software project tracking and oversight -- KPA 2.4 Software subcontract management -- KPA 2.5 Software quality assurance -- KPA 2.6 Software configuration management -- KPA 3.1 Organization process focus -- KPA 3.2 Organization process definition -- KPA 3.3 Training program -- KPA 3.4 Integrated software management -- KPA 3.5 Software product engineering -- KPA 3.6 Inter-group coordination -- KPA 3.7 Peer reviews -- Conclusion -- Bibliography |
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ADPD and UML adoption -- UML in the short -- UML and ADPD life cycle -- Walking Skeleton Phase -- Use case adoption -- Component diagram -- Deployment diagram adoption -- CRC cards adoption -- Class Diagram Adoption -- Release phase -- Use case adoption -- Activity diagrams adoption -- State diagrams adoption -- Bibliography -- Software measurement -- Metric taxonomy -- Functional metrics -- Line of code -- Cyclomatic complexity -- The cocomo model -- Towards object oriented -- Object Oriented Metric Overview -- Chidamber and Kemerer suite -- Li and Henry metrics -- Thomas and Jacobson Class Complexity -- Henderson-Sellers Class Complexity -- TAC++ framework -- Class Complexity metric for effort estimation -- A-posteriori Effort Estimation metric -- A-priori Effort Estimation metric -- Structural metrics overview -- Quality in use metrics -- Fault proneness metrics -- Project metrics -- Cognitive metrics -- Duplication analysis metrics -- BIBLIOGRAFIA -- Project Maintenance -- Maintenance model -- Corrective maintenance -- Adaptive maintenance -- Preventive Maintenance -- Maintenance in classical methodology -- Maintenance in agile methodologies -- Metric and models for estimation of maintenance effort -- CC-based Metrics for Maintenance -- NAM-based Metric for Maintenance -- Other Metrics for Maintenance -- Metrics and model for fault detection -- Model I -- Model II -- Model III -- Model IV -- Conclusion -- Bibliography |
| Summary |
"This book covers many aspects related to IT project management, such as human relationships, team management, software methodologies, and tools and techniques for project management"--Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Title from website (viewed Jan. 10, 2006) |
| Subject |
Information technology -- Management.
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Project management.
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Information technology -- Management
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Project management
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2021695680 |
| ISBN |
9781591407577 |
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1591407575 |
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9781591407584 |
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1591407583 |
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9781591407591 |
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1591407591 |
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