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Manage it! : your guide to modern, pragmatic project management /

Provides advice for managing a software design project, covering such topics as planning and using life cycles, scheduling, creating a project team, managing meetings, integrating testing, and completing a project.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:	Libro Electrónico
Autor principal:	Rothman, Johanna
Formato:	Electrónico eBook
Idioma:	Inglés
Publicado:	Raleigh, N.C. : Pragmatic Bookshelf, ©2007.
Colección:	Pragmatic programmers.
Temas:	Project management > Computer programs. Computer software > Design > Management. Project management.
Acceso en línea:	Texto completo (Requiere registro previo con correo institucional)

Tabla de Contenidos:

1 Starting a Project 1
1.1 Define Projects and Project Managers 1
1.2 Manage Your Drivers, Constraints, and Floats 3
1.3 Discuss Your Project Constraints with Your Client or Sponsor 6
1.4 Decide on a Driver for Your Project 7
1.5 Manage Sponsors Who Want to Overconstrain Your Project 9
1.6 Write a Project Charter to Share These Decisions 11
1.7 Know What Quality Means for Your Project 14
2 Planning the Project 17
2.1 Start the Wheels Turning 17
2.2 Plan Just Enough to Start 18
2.3 Develop a Project Plan Template 19
2.4 Define Release Criteria 26
2.5 Use Release Criteria 31
3 Using Life Cycles to Design Your Project 35
3.1 Understanding Project Life Cycles 35
3.2 Overview of Life Cycles 36
3.3 Seeing Feedback in the Project 40
3.4 Larger Projects Might Have Multiple Combinations of Life Cycles 41
3.5 Managing Architectural Risk 45
3.6 Paddling Your Way Out of a Waterfall 47
3.7 My Favorite Life Cycles 48
4 Scheduling the Project 49
4.1 Pragmatic Approaches to Project Scheduling 49
4.2 Select from These Scheduling Techniques 51
4.3 Start Scheduling with a Low-Tech Tool 54
5 Estimating the Work 63
5.1 Pragmatic Approaches to Project Estimation 63
5.2 Milestones Define Your Project's Chunks 76
5.3 How Little Can You Do? 78
5.4 Estimating with Multitasking 78
5.5 Scheduling People to Multitask by Design 79
5.6 Using Rolling-Wave Scheduling 80
5.7 Deciding on an Iteration Duration 81
5.8 Estimating Using Inch-Pebbles Wherever Possible 83
6 Recognizing and Avoiding Schedule Games 87
6.1 Bring Me a Rock 87
6.2 Hope Is Our Most Important Strategy 90
6.3 Queen of Denial 92
6.4 Sweep Under the Rug 95
6.5 Happy Date 97
6.6 Pants on Fire 99
6.7 Split Focus 101
6.8 Schedule Equals Commitment 103
6.9 We'll Know Where We Are When We Get There 105
6.10 The Schedule Tool Is Always Right 107
6.11 We Gotta Have It; We're Toast Without It 110
6.12 We Can't Say No 112
6.13 Schedule Chicken 114
6.14 90% Done 115
6.15 We'll Go Faster Now 117
6.16 Schedule Trance 119
7 Creating a Great Project Team 121
7.1 Recruit the People You Need 121
7.2 Help the Team Jell 123
7.3 Make Your Organization Work for You 126
7.4 Know How Large a Team You Need 129
7.5 Know When to Add More People 131
7.6 Become a Great Project Manager 131
7.7 Know When It's Time to Leave 134
8 Steering the Project 143
8.1 Steer the Project with Rhythm 143
8.2 Conduct Interim Retrospectives 144
8.3 Rank the Requirements 145
8.4 Timebox Requirements Work 148
8.5 Timebox Iterations to Four or Fewer Weeks 151
8.6 Use Rolling-Wave Planning and Scheduling 152
8.7 Create a Cross-Functional Project Team 155
8.8 Select a Life Cycle Based on Your Project's Risks 156
8.9 Keep Reasonable Work Hours 157
8.10 Use Inch-Pebbles 158
8.11 Manage Interruptions 159
8.12 Manage Defects Starting at the Beginning of the Project 161
9 Maintaining Project Rhythm 167
9.1 Adopt or Adapt Continuous Integration for Your Project 167
9.2 Create Automated Smoke Tests for the Build 169
9.3 Implement by Feature, Not by Architecture 170
9.4 Get Multiple Sets of Eyes on Work Products 175
9.5 Plan to Refactor 176
9.6 Utilize Use Cases, User Stories, Personas, and Scenarios to Define Requirements 178
9.7 Separate GUI Design from Requirements 179
9.8 Use Low-Fidelity Prototyping as Long as Possible 180
10 Managing Meetings 183
10.1 Cancel These Meetings 183
10.2 Conduct These Types of Meetings 186
10.3 Project Kickoff Meetings 187
10.4 Release Planning Meetings 187
10.5 Status Meetings 188
10.6 Reporting Status to Management 193
10.7 Project Team Meetings 194
10.8 Iteration Review Meetings 195
10.9 Troubleshooting Meetings 195
10.10 Manage Conference Calls with Remote Teams 197
11 Creating and Using a Project Dashboard 201
11.1 Measurements Can Be Dangerous 201
11.2 Measure Progress Toward Project Completion 204
11.3 Develop a Project Dashboard for Sponsors 227
11.4 Use a Project Weather Report 230
12 Managing Multisite Projects 235
12.1 What Does a Question Cost You? 236
12.2 Identify Your Project's Cultural Differences 237
12.3 Build Trust Among the Teams 238
12.4 Use Complementary Practices on a Team-by-Team Basis 241
12.5 Look for Potential Multisite Project and Multicultural Problems 249
12.6 Avoid These Mistakes When Outsourcing 251
13 Integrating Testing into the Project 255
13.1 Start People with a Mind-Set Toward Reducing Technical Debt 255
13.2 Reduce Risks with Small Tests 256
13.3 TDD Is the Easiest Way to Integrate Testing into Your Project 257
13.4 Use a Wide Variety of Testing Techniques 260
13.5 Define Every Team Member's Testing Role 263
13.6 What's the Right Developer-to-Tester Ratio? 267
13.7 Make the Testing Concurrent with Development 273
13.8 Define a Test Strategy for Your Project 273
13.9 System Test Strategy Template 274
13.10 There's a Difference Between QA and Test 276
14 Managing Programs 279
14.1 When Your Project Is a Program 279
14.2 Organizing Multiple Related Projects into One Release 280
14.3 Organizing Multiple Related Projects Over Time 282
14.4 Managing Project Managers 285
14.5 Creating a Program Dashboard 287
15 Completing a Project 289
15.1 Managing Requests for Early Release 289
15.2 Managing Beta Releases 290
15.3 When You Know You Can't Meet the Release Date 291
15.4 Shepherding the Project to Completion 299
15.5 Canceling a Project 303
16 Managing the Project Portfolio 307
16.1 Build the Portfolio of All Projects 307
16.2 Evaluate the Projects 309
16.3 Decide Which Projects to Fund Now 310
16.4 Rank-Order the Portfolio 310
16.5 Start Projects Faster 311
16.6 Manage the Demand for New Features with a Product Backlog 313
16.7 Troubleshoot Portfolio Management 315
A More Detailed Information About Life Cycles 323
A.1 Serial Life Cycle: Waterfall or Phase-Gate 323
A.2 Iterative Life Cycle: Spiral, Evolutionary Prototyping, Unified Process 327
A.3 Incremental Life Cycle: Staged Delivery, Design to Schedule 330
A.4 Agile Life Cycles 331.

Manage it! : your guide to modern, pragmatic project management /

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