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A Hacker's Guide to Project Management - Contents
Sections in italics are new to the Second Edition, but a lot of the other sections have also been updated.
Introduction
- Should I Be Reading this Book?
- So What’s This All About?
- What Do You Assume I Know?
- Will You Tell Me About Short-Cuts?
- How Does this Book Relate to Structured Methods?
- What’s Changed in the Second Edition?
- Acknowledgements
Success and Failure
- Why Do Software Projects Fail?
- So How Do I Know If I’ve Succeeded?
- Prevention and Cure
- What Do I Have to Deliver?
- So How Do I Ensure Success?
The Art of Project Management
- What Does a Project Manager Do?
- What are the Key Skills of a Project Manager?
- How Do I Lead?
- What if People Make Mistakes?
- How Do I Build a Team?
- How Do I Make Sure the Team is Complete?
- How Do I Plan, Report and Communicate?
- How Do I Gain Management Approval and Confidence?
- How Expert Do I Have to Be?
- How Do I Spot Problems?
- Is Programming Important?
- What Do I Do?
The Development Life-Cycle
- What is the Development Life-Cycle?
- What is the Waterfall Life-Cycle?
- What is Missing from Most Waterfall Methods?
- How Do Iterative and Incremental Methods Work?
- How Does Rapid Application Development Work?
- What Can Go Wrong?
- How Do I Choose A Method?
- How Do I Use the Method?
- How do I Control Changes?
- What is the Role of Prototyping?
- How Should I Structure My Project?
Structuring the Development
- How do I Divide Up a Development?
- How Do I Split the Project into Phases/Iterations?
- What are My Options for Team Structure?
- What Jobs Must be Done?
- How Do I Structure Testing?
- OK, So What Do I Have to Do?
Planning and Estimating
- What are the Principles of Planning?
- How Do I Complete My Plan?
- How Do I Plan the Staffing of the Project?
- How Can I Present My Plan?
- How Do I Know I've Got The Estimates Correct?...
- Isn’t There a Better Way to Estimate Things?
- How Do I Resist Time and Budget Pressures?
- What is the "Testing Trap"?
- What Other Resources Do I Need?
- What Do I Do If I’m Not Meeting My Plan?
- So How Should I Create My Plan?
The Strategy
- What is the Role of A Strategy?
- How Do I Make a Business Case?
- How Do I Know What Quality is Required?
- What Else Do We Need to Decide?
- What is a Quality Plan?
- What Goes Into the Strategy Report?
- How Do I Control Communications with People?
- What Do I Deliver?
Analysis
- What Do They Need?
- How Do I Document Requirements Using Use Cases?
- How Does Thinking About Objects Help?
- How Do I Develop the Class Model?
- How Do I Describe the Business Processes?
- What are the “Architectural Requirements”?
- How and Why Should I Create a Data Model?
- How Do I Document the Requirements?
- Which Techniques Should I Use?
- What are the Risks During Strategy & Analysis?
- What Do I Deliver?
Procurement - Buying It In
- What’s A Typical Procurement Process?
- What Are the Different Types of Procurement?
- How Do I Choose the Right Supplier?
- How Do I Control the Supplier?
- What Else do I Need to Check?
- How Do I Work with an Unsigned Contract?
- What Do I Deliver?
Architecture and Design
- Why Do I Need A Design?
- What Are the Properties of a Good Design?
- What Does the Architect Do?
- What Goes Into the Design Report?
- How Does the Design Relate to the Analysis Model?
- How Do I Create a Good Design?
- Why Should I Use Patterns and AntiPatterns?
- What Are Component, Layer and Service Architectures?
- How Do I Make My System More Usable?
- How Do I Make My System More Flexible?
- How Do I Integrate My System With Others?
- What are the Risks During Design?
- What Do I Deliver?
Build, Document and Test
- How Do I Ensure the Code is Good?
- How Do I Do Good Testing?
- What About User Documentation?
- What is Configuration Management?
- Who is Responsible for Quality?
- What are the “Best Practices” in the Build Stage?
- What’s in the Project File?
- What Do I Deliver?
The Transition Into Use
- How Do I Move My System Into Production?
- How Do I Prepare the Users?
- So How Do I Manage This?
- How Do I Plan for Long-Term Support and Maintenance?
- What Are the Risks in the Transition Stage?
- How Do I Know When I’ve Finished?
- What Do We Deliver?
Production and Maintenance
- How Do I Manage a Maintenance Effort?
- What Are the Right Attitudes to Maintenance?
- What Happens When Someone Important Leaves?
- How Do Systems Die?
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