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Principles of software engineering management
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Wokingham, Eng. : Addison-Wesley, 1988
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9780201192469
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Summary
Summary
This practical guide is designed to assist professionals with the problems involved in developing complex software systems, presenting a set of guidelines and tools to manage the technical and organisational aspects of software engineering projects
Author Notes
Tom Gilb is an independent consultant who includes many of the world's largest companies amongst his clients. He therefore has a wealth of practical experience on which to draw in teaching organizational improvement and software design.
Table of Contents
| Foreword | p. vii |
| Preface | p. ix |
| Part 1 Why do it? | p. 1 |
| 1 The pre-natal death of the Corporate Information System (CIS) project | p. 3 |
| 2 Overview | p. 13 |
| 3 What is the real problem? | p. 27 |
| 4 What is a solution, and what is not? | p. 43 |
| 5 Evaluating solutions | p. 57 |
| 6 Estimating the risk | p. 71 |
| 7 An introduction to the 'evolutionary delivery' method | p. 83 |
| Part 2 How to do it | p. 115 |
| 8 Functional specification | p. 117 |
| 9 Attribute specification | p. 133 |
| 10 Solutions: how to find and specify them | p. 161 |
| 11 Solution evaluation | p. 181 |
| 12 The inspection process: early quality and process control | p. 205 |
| 13 Evolutionary delivery planning and implementation | p. 227 |
| Part 3 Advanced insights and practical experiences | p. 249 |
| 14 The management of software productivity | p. 251 |
| 15 Some deeper and broader perspectives on evolutionary delivery and related technology | p. 265 |
| 16 Ten principles for estimating software attributes | p. 311 |
| 17 Deadline pressure: how to beat it | p. 325 |
| 18 How to get reliable software systems | p. 339 |
| 19 Software engineering templates | p. 359 |
| 20 Principles for motivating your colleagues to use quality metrics | p. 391 |
| 21 The Omega project: inspection experience | p. 403 |
| 22 The production planning case | p. 423 |
| Index | p. 431 |
